#authors

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#authors #cover #get #i #make

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#good #many #shortage #them

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#become #better #black #books #clone

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs. ↗

— Lee Child

#authors #better #care #considerably #female

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #classic-quotes #divine-blessings #divinity #faith

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#authors #because #being #books #change

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#authors #backs #behind #dead #down

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#distrust #kind #kittens #like #other

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can. ↗

— Paul Kane

#also #authors #dance #feedback #feel

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#could #evolution #god #had #important