authors

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

You learn to run by running.

People always try to make self-published authors feel insignificant. I have more respect for self-published authors, because I know the adversity they faced. They didn't just write a manuscript, query letter, and blam book deal. These authors had to do it the difficult way. There is no publisher, or agents, investing time, and money into making their book. Just the indie author's manuscript, own currency, and persistence.

A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.

The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books.

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

If you wait for God to descend to earth and save youfrom your fuck ups, you will be waiting until youdrop dead.

People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?

I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren't any more books left to swim in. That's why I hate when authors die. I cannot stand it. There will be no more books forthcoming from that person. Their future books died with them. In the past I have found a series of books and loved it so much that all I wanted to do was read and read and read those books for the rest of my life. Then I would find out that the author was dead. Had in fact been dead for many a year. This has happened to me several times.

Don__ ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing

And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom in my mind. Beethoven does the same thing with his cadence and phrasing and structure. It's a fact: Jane Austen is musical. And so's Yeats. And Wordsworth. All the great writers are musical.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment__ reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.