“When I get home I shall write a book about this place... If I ever do get home.”— Winston Hibler, Alice (voice), Kathryn Beaumont, imdb.com
“The really important point here is that your debut book/series/year DOES NOT PREDICT YOUR CAREER. It's not any indicator of future success. Publishers know and understand this. Just keep writing the best books you can. Keep innovating without fear. Keep that hope.”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“If I could change 1 thing about my debut year as an author, I wish someone in power had looked me in the eye and said, 'You wrote a good book, and you're a good writer, but we are not pushing your book. There is no way it will hit list. Just have fun.' Truth > disappointment.”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“A semicolon is used when an author chooses not to end a sentence. We are saying you are the author and the sentence is your life and you are choosing to continue. The best way to put the conception of the semicolon was that it was conceived in a perfect storm scenario.”— Amy Bleuel, medium.com
“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”— Thomas Mann, goodreads.com
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.com