I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
Walter Jon Williams
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
P. G. Wodehouse
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Joyce Brothers
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Wilson Mizner
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
David Moranis
An author departs, he does not die.
Dinah Maria Mulock