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A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city. — Samuel Johnson

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead. — James Franco

I wanted to become immortal. So I wrote a book. — T.M. Williams

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that. — Neil Gaiman

Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways!
This book is a charge and blessing from above.
Writing it has been on my radar for a while. — Deborah L. Parker

As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher. — W. Terry Whalin

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text. — Abraham Pais

A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well. — B.A. Gabrielle

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams. — Nenia Campbell

Every book has it's destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins" The days of Childhood !!!!! — Tushar Upreti

Who learns most from a good book is the author. — Jose Bergamin

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of. — Umberto Eco

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things. — Candace Bushnell

Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it. — Carole Radziwill

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony! — Latif Mercado

When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away. — B.A. Gabrielle

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews. — Carol Tavris

A true fiction author is able to act through each character in their book and deliver stunning performances. — Conrad Brasso

What an author doesn't know could fill a book. — Holly Black

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

I believe in magic, therefore trap it in a book — Karen Emma Hall

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport. — Jonathan Weeks

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,
and the meaning has to go find an author again.
- The Trouble With Reading — William Stafford

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. — Evelyn Waugh

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book. — Aditi Dufare

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. — Ryan Lilly

In a successful launch, the author believes that buying their book is actually a good thing for people to do. — Tim Grahl

Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. — Mortimer J. Adler

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults. — Deb Caletti

Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics. — Daniel H. Pink

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it. — Nicole Krauss

Ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse. — Shandy L. Kurth

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do. — Elizabeth Scott

I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all. — Emma Donoghue

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book. — Bernhard Schlink

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author. — Charles Lamb

What's in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader get out of it. — William Golding

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them. — Michelle M. Pillow

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him. — Michel Houellebecq

You are a success and nothing will stop your shining! — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses. — Margaret Aranda

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat. — M.J. Rose

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books. — Mark Lawrence

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so. — S.A. Tawks

As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage. — Carew Papritz

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. — Pierre Bayle

My Name Is Latif Mercado, And I Am... A Workaholic! — Latif Mercado

By reading a book, one can learn in a matter of days what it took the author an entire lifetime to learn — Pastor John Weaver

As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author. — Heather Hart

authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world — Johnnie Dent Jr.

A book is almost always a collective effort, even if it has only a single author. — Raghuram G. Rajan

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment. — Alistair Begg

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece. — Rose Kennedy

I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book ... — Vladimir Nabokov

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past. — Carla H. Krueger

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous . — Tushar Upreti

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. — Mickey Spillane

I feel his body pressed against mine. His heat burns against my flesh; searing, seducing. Permanently making it his. — A.R. Von

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. — Jeff Bezos

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come. — Carolyn Hart

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. — Robert Benchley

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke. — Ned Vizzini

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author. — George Sand

I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book. — Anthony Powell

Every author has to eventually write a food book. — Chuck Palahniuk

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome. — Carla H. Krueger

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book, — William Godwin

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author. — John Hodgman

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can. — S.A. Tawks

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner. — Sam Horn

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors. — James Rollins

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. — Anne Bronte

Men may consider a female like a book and try judging her by the cover but she is not the book but the author of the destiny of mankind. — Amit Abraham

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable. — Carew Papritz

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean De La Bruyere

When you open a book, you open the mind of the author. — Teni Abegunde

A man who worships the Creator is a book signed by the Author. — Robert Mullin

Fall is the season of beauty and delicious food. Be grateful for the change of scenery, and try observing it to get more book ideas. — B.A. Gabrielle

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. — Rumer Godden

Reading a book makes a conversation with the author (Robin Sharma on The Cure For Fear - Robin Sharma) — Deyth Banger

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe. — Arthur Smith

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author. — Walter Savage Landor

Are you making noise with your book marketing or are you creating a symphony? — Judith Briles

You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read. — Ken Stark

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. — Aldous Huxley

I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said. — John Wyndham

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse. — Marjane Satrapi

~Reading a book is like looking through a window! — Zetta Hupf

A book is the gateway to the soul of its author. — A.R. Voss

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him. — Edgar Allan Poe

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul. — Jason Ellis

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made. — Lauren Oliver

I've never met an author I can't love to hate or a book I haven't paid full price for. — Keith M. Weller

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written. — Paulo Coelho

The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty. — Sinclair Lewis