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• It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle.

  Julius Wellhausen

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• I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

  Katherine Paterson

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• There’s a book that I read, really a great book – it’s called ‘Lone Survivor’ and I think they’re trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the ‘lone survivor.’ He’s a national hero; he’s very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it’s something I’d love to explore.

  Jared Padalecki

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• For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

  Amanda Hocking

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• I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

  Tara Bray Smith

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• A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn’t there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

  Maggie Stiefvater

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• I became a children’s author by accident.

  Jerry Spinelli

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• The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

  Isaac D'Israeli

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• I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

  Isaac Pitman

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• It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, ‘That’s next chapter, don’t worry about it!’ I don’t think the workshop is set up so well to do that for novels.

  Karen Russell

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• I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author’s political views.

  Edith Wharton

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• The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

  Henry Brooks Adams

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• No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

  Stephen King

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• It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

  Tom Stoppard

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• Hemingway’s remarks are not literature.

  Gertrude Stein

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• The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers… but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

  Tiger Woods

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• The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

  Isabel Allende

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• Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

  Salman Rushdie

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• The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

  Edward Gibbon

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• One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

  William Goldman

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