Author Quotes

“Tolstoy had that crucial attribute of a great novelist: he was a bad man.”

“The 'I' which writes the text is never, itself, anything more than a paper-I.”

“A literary man is a man who can talk about his own books.”

“Authors are sick people. We are not a happy lot. It's a sickness that's driven by a compulsion to make something that wasn't there before.”

“A publisher's first duty is to his authors.”

“Singers are not to know who the author of the libretto is, because they invariably hold authors in contempt.”

“A writer is a person who can't stop writing.”

“My job is to make books, and authors, speak.”

“The first purpose of a copyright law is to protect the author in his property.”

“The nation that fails to protect its authors in the property of their productions is not only doing injustice to a class of its citizens, but is committing a wrong against its own future.”

“We don't publish books, we publish authors.”

“I think a publisher's job is to provide a forum for authors, not to interfere.”