authors

There is in Albert Camus_ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.

- If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say? - Sweet. Cute. Funny. - That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly.

Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation.

Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says __ Million Copies Sold,_ did you ever wonder who bought them?

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.

I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others

I know one thing for sho Heaven__ gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

Forget the fictional characters _ how many authors are being stopped on the street?

Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.

In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!

Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me, not with apples and flagons, but with wit and grace, humor and intense caring about your discipline. Don't slack, don't give it a lick and a promise, don't make it evident that you posted what was 'good enough for government work,' don't try and fake it. Give it your best, your all, not for pence, but for the love of the craft. Do these things, as these writers and scores I have not named do, bring to your work your self, your heart, your voice, motherly or youthful, lawyerly or priestly, conservative or liberal, it matters not. Do this and I and hundreds of others will return again and again to your work, not merely because we may have a burning need for a new printer or an abiding interest in college newspapers or what have you, but because we wish to spend time with your mind and voice.

In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn__ expect to end up with the chicken.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you could conclude that if you are said author, you are in love with yourself.