Authors should be honored only for their works.
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I’m deeply inspired by all of his work – I rip him off constantly.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.
Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.
Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him – more than many authors are aware, I think.
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
All great authors are seers.
I’ve had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don’t know many other authors who can.
The authors of the Affordable Care Act wrongly assumed that new kinds of health plans, engineered in Washington, D.C., would emerge to displace the national for-profit insurers.
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.
From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry.
The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It’s that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than ‘quality’ as criteria for what they choose.
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text – to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury’s magnificent work, ‘The Martian Chronicles.’ I had read other science fiction by noted authors, but this book was something else altogether.
Most authors would love to see their characters made for the screen, especially one that’s quite colourful.
People really want to set up these rivalries because there’s a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we’re all fierce rivals, and really there’s just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.
I don’t remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was ‘The Timber Toes.’ I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.
There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose… anything goes.
There’s a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.
I don’t think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one’s business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn’t possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.
My favourite authors are John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer. Grisham rapidly established himself and now completely owns the legal space of fiction writing, something I want to do in financial space. I like Archer because he keeps his readers engaged: every chapter is a page turner, and he keeps his writing simple.
Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.’
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
I’ve always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
