#authors

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#always #answer #authors #connect #fan

Believe in your dreams and when people doubt you, prove them wrong. ↗

— Sky Diamond

#help #inspirational #personal-growth #sky-diamond #young-authors

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. ↗

— Cole Porter

#authors #better #four-letter #goes #good

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. ↗

— Jane Porter

#authors #chief #country #dr #glory

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#authors #being #creators #darwinian #demoted

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. ↗

— David Knopfler

#college #escape #go #gravity #i

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#author #authors #how #many #means

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch. ↗

— George Stephen

#bunch #contemporary #disparate #even #horror

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#book #books #develop #different #different styles

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#always #authors #french #german #great