Top Authors Quotes

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will...

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire toRousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to beirresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their l...

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!

Sadly, there are writers who wouldn't know an umlaut from an omelet.

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)

An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time...

Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly st...