We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the "writing style" of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.
David Crane

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
Pat Robertson

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
Brendan Francis

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
Logan P. Smith

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
Lawrence Clark Powell

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal

Who learns most from a good book is the author.
Jose Bergamin

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
George Fox

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
Bruce Beresford

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
Art Spiegelman

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
David Halberstam

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
Ken Hill

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
W. Somerset Maugham

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee