Famous quotes by Authors

"I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old"

A. E. van Vogt, Author

"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape"

A. C. Benson, Author

"I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it"

David Eddings, Author

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again"

Enid Bagnold, Author

"Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist"

Auberon Waugh, Author

"The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective"

Richard Schickel, Author

"There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built"

Richard Ford, Author

"I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people, by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people"

Kenneth Anger, Author

"I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do"

Margaret Forster, Author

"There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot"

L. Sprague de Camp, Author

"I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

"I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

"If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"I never learned to read music"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object"

Richard Schickel, Author

"A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration"

Richard Schickel, Author

"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married"

Richard Ford, Author

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun"

Kent Nerburn, Author

"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing"

Marie Carmichael Stopes, Author

"For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?"

Haniel Long, Author

"The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good"

L. Sprague de Camp, Author

"People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living"

Dashiell Hammett, Author

"I like women. I really like women"

Dashiell Hammett, Author

"I haven't any sort of plans for the future, but I reckon things will work out in some manner"

Dashiell Hammett, Author

"It's a woman's book, but I think the men will read it too"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies"

John Sterling, Author

"Pain has its own noble joy when it starts a strong consciousness of life from a stagnant one"

John Sterling, Author

"Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

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