Favorite Author Quotes

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock. Timothy Zahn

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. Robert Louis Stevenson

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable. Sir Author Conan Doyle

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe

" Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly. " Drew Goodman

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money." Virginia Woolf

"Never memorize something that you can look up." Albert Einstein

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. Lewis Carroll

"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story." Frank Herbert

"I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth! " Homer

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
-Letter to Joseph Twichell, 9/13/1898" (GOD, I LOVE YOU, MR. TWAIN! FINALLY SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME! XD )

Mark Twain

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Neil Gaiman

You ask me again if I look upon writing as an escape from reality: in no sense of the word does it seem to me to be escape from reality; I should rather say that it is an attempt to approach and penetrate reality. Thomas Wolfe

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does. William Faulkner

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." Madeleine L'Engle

"I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words." Craig Claiborne

"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any." Russel Baker

"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works." Samuel Johnson (Readers, heed his advice and review please! TT )

"You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world." Ray Bradbury

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?…If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!” JRR Tolkien