There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.
Ian McEwanI'm often asked which author I am most inspired by, but I'm inspired by all authors. It takes a great deal of courage to pour your onto paper and watch silently as the world judges it loudly.
Charity ParkersonTag: inspiration authors
When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become a book that can be read, that no longer belongs to its maker. It has acquired, in a sense, free will. It will make its journey through the world and there is no longer anything the author can do about it. Even he, as he looks at its sentences, reads them differently now that they can be read by others. They look like different sentences. The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.
Salman RushdieTag: perception reading books writing authors publishing metamorphosis books-and-authors books-and-reading published-books
Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.
Shannon L. AlderTag: friends writing writers stories characters enemies authors analogies anger drama conflict memories irritation villians fights examples annoy cruel-people stalkers life-events jealous-women angry-men bitter-people fake-christians fiction-characters made-an-example plots
Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
Meagan SpoonerTag: humor inspirational writing writers authors writer-s-block
Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.
Marion Dane BauerTag: authors writing-books writing-from-the-heart
I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.
Graham GreeneTag: books love authors graham-greene doctor-fischer-of-geneva
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
Peter S. BeagleTag: imagination reading books dreams heroes authors
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
E. NesbitIn the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.
John GreenTag: books authors value publishing authorship e-books editors
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