Authorship Quotes

“I believe that the writer should be a transparent medium.”

“We published authors, not just books.”

“If a man wants to be a writer, he must be a reader.”

“The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.”

“The digital author is not a solitary genius but a node in a network of collaboration and remix.”

“The cameraman is the author of the film, as far as the picture is concerned.”

“The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”

“My favorite fantasy character of all time is Silk in The Belgariad.”

“For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.”

“I think the translator has to have a certain humility. You’re serving the author, you’re not serving yourself.”

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader furnishes it.”

“Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.”

“One man, one film.”

“You have to be very fond of people to go to the trouble of putting them in a book.”

“Movies are a director's medium, and they should be.”

“In Pro-fiction, the author is in charge.”

“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”

“My job is to serve the text, to serve the author's intention.”

“I'm a believer in 'one-person, one-film.' I think that's what makes a film stand out.”

“I shall name myself so that I may be remembered: My name is Marie, and I am from France.”