#authors

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost! ↗

— Henry James

#authorship #fiction #writing #art

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#authors #book #books #folk #gullible

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#authors #editors #many #meet #try

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true! ↗

— David Eagleman

#any #authors #books #bookstore #certainty

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#authors #because #books #booksellers #destination

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy. ↗

— Edward Everett

#before #congress #ferocious #frenzy #influence

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#authors #beginning #correcting #edition #end

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination. ↗

— Tycho Brahe

#authors #been #clear #devised #exist

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. ↗

— David Brin

#best #better #could #differential #doubt

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#authors #cover #get #i #make