Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
Junot Diaz
Call me the author.
Joan Didion
The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
Umberto Eco
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
Jasper Fforde
I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.
Mariella Frostrup
As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
Neil Gaiman
I think of myself as a very lazy author.
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
Barton Gellman
Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
Elizabeth George
I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.
Paul Harding