Author Quotes

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book" "A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "For more, you can refer to his books or speeches directly." "In order to write about life first you must live it" "A writer should be as objective as a chemist." "The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly." "A novel which does not give the utmost satisfaction to its author is an immoral novel" "Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same way, in a different tree." "I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now I just have to fill in the rest." "This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard." "I would like to be remembered as a thoughtful writer" "A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it." "Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." "To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme " "All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them." "The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life." "The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer" "It's no small thing to take the risk of writing for a living." "The writer's life is a life of solitary work" "I'm a storyteller. That's all I've ever tried to be."