Terry Pratchett

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

English Author

Steve Harvey

I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

American Actor

Jim Rohn

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

American Businessman

Oscar Wilde

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Irish Poet

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

English Writer

Chuck Palahniuk

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

American Novelist

Haruki Murakami

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Japanese Writer

Rebecca Serle

Of course YA authors have a responsibility to their audience.

American Writer

Jennine Capó Crucet

Cuban Author

J. K. Rowling

Respect the title 'author' for one's creative work, it denotes a significant achievement.

Cultural Respect

Remember, authors can write non-fiction too, like science articles or history books.

Not Just Fiction

The term can imply the author is an expert or authority in the book's subject matter.

Authority Implied

This definition expands 'author' to people who create original plans or ideas.

Beyond Literature

Can refer to the person behind abstract creations, like a philosophy or movement.

Abstract Concepts

Emphasizes the act of creation, underscoring the author's role in producing content.

Active Participation

Using 'authored' highlights the professionalism and expertise involved in writing.

Professional Undertone

 The authors of the study have a video where they show themselves taking over a car and then turning on the microphone in the car, and listening in on the car while tracking it via GPS on a map, and so that's something that the drivers of the car would never know was happening. Am I scaring you yet?

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 because they were written by my grandfather's favorite authors. My grandfather was a rabbi and he was a widower who lived alone in a small apartment in Brooklyn that was my favorite place in the world when I was growing up, partly because it was filled with his very gentle, very courtly presence

The power of introverts...

 And if we want to create a world where the circumstances of your birth don't matter, we all have to be part of the solution. And interestingly, the author of the lab resume experiment offered some sort of a solution. She said the one thing that brought the successful women together,

What does my headscarf...

 "It is not a novel. Still less an epic poem. Still less a historical chronicle. 'War and Peace' is what the author wanted and was able to express in the form in which it was expressed." It is, in other words, the sum total of Tolstoy's imaginative powers, and nothing less.

Why should you read...

 required to support our life form here on earth so I'm just going to go through it again what we do with 100 year starship is really about inclusion because we want to have the right teams we have people from textile designers to science fiction authors to biomedical

Want interstellar...

 Authors of science fiction and fantasy literally build worlds. They make rules, maps, lineages, languages, cultures, universes, alternate universes within universes, and from those worlds sprout story, after story, after story.

How to build a fictional...

 like pretty you know a wonderful author once said that comparing a partial eclipse to a toll solar eclipse is like comparing riding in an airplane to falling out of an airplane

Watch the Total Solar...

 world-class Ponzi schemers, a deception epidemic -- in short, what one author calls a post-truth society. It's been very confusing for a long time now. What do you do?

How to spot a liar PIPE...

 The cubs panic and follow the adults right into the middle of the fight. They're in extreme danger now, so, the adult authors step up the assault.

Otter Family Defeats...

 If your life were a book and you were the author,