Author Quotes at BrainyQuote

Author	Birth - Death
Edward Abbey	1927 - 1989
Lynn Abbey	1948 -
Lyman Abbott	1835 - 1922
Jack Henry Abbott	1944 - 2002
Megan Abbott	-
Peter Ackroyd	1949 -
Aesop	620 BC - 560 BC
Ama Ata Aidoo	1942 -
Conrad Aiken	1889 - 1973
Scott Alexander	-
Horatio Alger	1832 - 1899
James Allen	1864 - 1912
James Lane Allen	1849 - 1925
Hervey Allen	1889 - 1949
Will Allison	1968 -
Chris Van Allsburg	1949 -
Martin Amis	1949 -
Hans Christian Andersen	1805 - 1875
Hans Christian Anderson	1805 - 1875
Virginia C. Andrews	1923 - 1986
Kenneth Anger	1930 -
Robert Anthony	-
Timothy Garton Ash	1955 -
Robert Asprin	1946 -
Margot Asquith	1864 - 1945
Athenaeus	-
Kate Atkinson	1951 -
Berthold Auerbach	1812 - 1882
Norman Ralph Augustine	1935 -
Paul Auster	1947 -
Walter Bagehot	1826 - 1877
Enid Bagnold	1889 - 1981
James A. Baldwin	1924 - 1987
Hugo Ball	1886 - 1927
J. G. Ballard	1930 -
Toni Cade Bambara	1939 - 1995
John Kendrick Bangs	1862 - 1922
Russell Banks	1940 -
Linwood Barclay	-
Neal Barnard	-
Natalie Clifford Barney	1876 - 1972
Bruce Barton	1886 - 1967
Katharine Lee Bates	1859 - 1929
L. Frank Baum	1856 - 1919
Peter S. Beagle	1939 -
James Beard	1903 - 1985
Martha Beck	1962 -
Isabella Beeton	1836 - 1865
Ted Bell	-
Rob Bell	1970 -
Edward Bellamy	1850 - 1898
Ludwig Bemelmans	1898 - 1962
Peter Benchley	1940 - 2006
A. C. Benson	1862 - 1925
Nicolas Bentley	1907 - 1978
John Berendt	1939 -
Alex Berenson	1973 -
Michael Bergdahl	1954 -
Georges Bernanos	1888 - 1948
Steve Berry	1955 -
Pierre Berton	1920 - 2004
Augustine Birrell	1850 - 1933
Mark Bittman	-
Mary Kay Blakely	-
Helena Petrova Blavatsky	-
James Blish	1921 - 1975
William Blum	1933 -
Judy Blume	1938 -
Giovanni Boccaccio	1313 - 1375
Tom Bodett	1955 -
Corrie Ten Boom	1892 - 1983
Louis E. Boone	1941 -
Hal Borland	1900 - 1978
George Borrow	1803 - 1881
Anthony Bourdain	1956 -
James Bovard	1956 -
Christian Nestell Bovee	1820 - 1904
Leigh Brackett	1915 - 1978
Stewart Brand	1938 -
T. Berry Brazelton	1918 -
Sarah Ban Breathnach	-
Chris A. Bridges	1965 -
David Brin	1950 -
Poppy Z. Brite	1967 -
David Brock	1962 -
Fawn M. Brodie	1915 - 1981
Harold Brodkey	1930 - 1996
Arthur C. Brooks	1964 -
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.	-
Dan Brown	1964 -
Sandra Brown	1948 -
Tammy Bruce	1962 -
Steven Brust	1955 -
Vincent Bugliosi	1934 -
Charles Bukowski	1920 - 1994
Brendon Burchard	-
Gelett Burgess	1866 - 1951
Melvin Burgess	1954 -
James Lee Burke	-
James MacGregor Burns	1918 -
John Burroughs	1837 - 1921
Edgar Rice Burroughs	1875 - 1950
Leo Buscaglia	1924 - 1998
Amir Butler	-
Tony Buzan	1942 -
John Byrne	1950 -
Meg Cabot	1967 -
Abraham Cahan	1860 - 1951
Taylor Caldwell	1900 - 1985
Julia Cameron	1948 -
L. Sprague de Camp	1907 - 2000
Joseph Campbell	1904 - 1987
Elias Canetti	1905 - 1994
Philip Caputo	1941 -
Eric Carle	1929 -
Richard Carlson	1912 - 1977
Humphrey Carpenter	1946 - 2005
Howie Carr	1952 -
Robyn Carr	-
Lewis Carroll	1832 - 1898
Jonathan Carroll	1949 -
Willa Cather	1873 - 1947
Michael Chabon	1963 -
Jack L. Chalker	1944 - 2005
Gary Chapman	1938 -
Linda Chavez	1947 -
Ron Chernow	1949 -
Mary Boykin Chesnut	1823 - 1886
Lincoln Child	1957 -
Kate Chopin	1850 - 1904
Thomas Churchyard	1520 - 1604
Sandra Cisneros	1954 -
Cassandra Clare	1973 -
Kenneth Clark	-
Mary Higgins Clark	1927 -
John Henrik Clarke	1915 - 1998
Beverly Cleary	1916 -
Brian P. Cleary	1959 -
Daniel Clowes	1961 -
Harlan Coben	1962 -
Edward Cocker	1631 - 1672
J. M. Coetzee	1940 -
Edwin Louis Cole	1922 - 2002
Sara Coleridge	1802 - 1852
Jackie Collins	1937 -
Alex Comfort	1920 - 2000
Anna Comnena	1083 - 1153
Michael Connelly	1956 -
Jilly Cooper	1937 -
Robert Coover	1932 -
Robert Cormier	1925 - 2000
Jerome Corsi	1946 -
Doug Coupland	1961 -
Norman Cousins	1915 - 1990
Robert Crais	1953 -
Michael Crichton	1942 -
Herbert Croly	1869 - 1930
Justin Cronin	1962 -
Melissa de la Cruz	1971 -
George William Curtis	1824 - 1892
Marquis De Custine	1790 - 1857
Jessica Cutler	1978 -
Dinesh D'Souza	1961 -
John Cotton Dana	1856 - 1929
Edwidge Danticat	1969 -
Paula Danziger	1944 - 2004
Donald Davis	-
Rebecca Harding Davis	1831 - 1910
Clarence Day	1874 - 1935
Thomas Day	1748 - 1789
Nelson DeMille	1943 -
Vine Deloria, Jr.	1933 - 2005
Barbara Deming	1917 - 1984
Patrick Dennis	1921 - 1976
Kate DiCamillo	1964 -
Jared Diamond	1937 -
Gordon R. Dickson	1923 - 2001
Joan Didion	1934 -
Annie Dillard	1945 -
Thomas M. Disch	1940 - 2008
E. L. Doctorow	1931 -
Carl Van Doren	1885 - 1950
Frederick Douglass	1817 - 1895
Ree Drummond	1969 -
Erin Duffy	-
Pierre Dukan	1941 -
Glen Duncan	1965 -
Ariel Durant	1898 - 1981
Friedrich Durrenmatt	1921 - 1990
Gregg Easterbrook	-
Max Eastman	1883 - 1969
Charles Alexander Eastman	1858 - 1939
Charles Eastman	1858 - 1939
Eknath Easwaran	1910 - 1999
David Eddings	1931 -
Sherwood Eddy	1871 - 1963
George Alec Effinger	1947 - 2002
George Eliot	1819 - 1880
Warren Ellis	1968 -
Bret Easton Ellis	1964 -
Ralph Ellison	1914 - 1994
Charles D. Ellison	-
Shusaku Endo	1923 - 1996
Hans Magnus Enzensberger	1929 -
Nora Ephron	1941 - 2012
Jean Henri Fabre	1823 - 1915
Cliff Fadiman	-
William Feather	1889 - 1981
Raymond E. Feist	1945 -
Owen Feltham	1602 - 1668
Tim Ferriss	1977 -
Helen Fielding	1958 -
Jack Finney	1911 - 1995
Dorothy Canfield Fisher	1879 - 1958
F. Scott Fitzgerald	1896 - 1940
Robert Fitzgerald	1910 - 1985
Fannie Flagg	1941 -
Ian Fleming	1908 - 1964
Gillian Flynn	-
Vince Flynn	1966 -
Ken Follet	1949 -
Ken Follett	1949 -
Shelby Foote	1916 - 2005
Esther Forbes	1891 - 1967
Richard Ford	1944 -
Margaret Forster	1938 -
Frederick Forsyth	1938 -
Alan Dean Foster	1946 -
Alain-Fournier	1886 - 1914
Emmet Fox	1886 - 1951
Kate Fox	-
Dick Francis	1920 -
Thomas Frank	1965 -
Bruno Frank	1878 - 1945
Dorothea Benton Frank	1951 -
Antonia Fraser	1932 -
Marilyn French	1929 - 2009
Kathy Freston	-
Nancy Friday	1933 -
Robert Fulghum	1937 -
Alexandra Fuller	1969 -
Cornelia Funke	1958 -
Diana Gabaldon	1952 -
Eva Gabrielsson	1953 -
Neil Gaiman	1960 -
Mavis Gallant	1922 -
John Galsworthy	1867 - 1933
Lisa Gardner	-
Ina Garten	1948 -
Shakti Gawain	1948 -
Aulus Gellius	-
Elizabeth George	1949 -
Emily Giffin	1972 -
Jerry Gillies	-
Malcolm Gladwell	1963 -
Arnold H. Glasow	1905 - 1998
Elinor Glyn	1864 - 1943
Jim Goad	1961 -
Herbert Gold	1924 -
Natalie Goldberg	1948 -
Daniel Goleman	1946 -
Jeff Goodell	-
Edward Gorey	1925 - 2000
Richard Grant	1952 -
Gunther Grass	1927 -
Gunter Grass	1927 -
John Gray	-
Celia Green	1935 -
Anna Katharine Green	1846 - 1935
John Green	1977 -
William Greider	-
Zane Grey	1872 - 1939
Gerald Griffin	1803 - 1840
Andrew Gross	1952 -
Sara Gruen	1969 -
William Gurnall	1617 - 1679
David Guterson	1956 -
Margaret Haddix	1964 -
Ludovic Halevy	1834 - 1908
Thomas Chandler Haliburton	1796 - 1865
James Norman Hall	1887 - 1951
Evelyn Beatrice Hall	1868 - 1919
Justin Halpern	1980 -
Margaret Halsey	1910 - 1997
Virginia Hamilton	1936 - 2002
Dashiell Hammett	1894 - 1961
Knut Hamsun	1859 - 1952
Charles Handy	1932 -
Frank Harris	1856 - 1931
Thomas Harris	1940 -
Charlaine Harris	1951 -
Harry Harrison	1925 -
Bret Harte	1836 - 1902
Katharine Butler Hathaway	1890 - 1942
Louise L. Hay	-
Lafcadio Hearn	1850 - 1904
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun	1926 - 2003
Oliver Herford	1863 - 1935
Will Hermes	1960 -
Herman Hesse	1877 - 1962
Wolfgang Hildesheimer	1916 - 1991
Napolean Hill	1883 - 1970
Laura Hillenbrand	1967 -
Tony Hillerman	1925 -
Christopher Hitchens	1949 -
Edward Hoagland	1932 -
Benjamin Hoff	1946 -
Alice Hoffman	1952 -
James P. Hogan	1941 -
Paul Horgan	1903 - 1995
Jean Houston	1937 -
Vernon Howard	1918 - 1992
William Dean Howells	1837 - 1920
L. Ron Hubbard	1911 - 1986
William Henry Hudson	1841 - 1922
Victor Hugo	1802 - 1885
Evan Hunter	1926 - 2005
Dean Inge	1860 - 1954
David Irving	1938 -
Christopher Isherwood	1904 - 1986
Kazuo Ishiguro	1954 -
E. L. James	-
J. A. Jance	1944 -
Elizabeth Janeway	1913 - 2005
Derrick Jensen	1960 -
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen	1873 - 1950
Jerome K. Jerome	1859 - 1927
Sarah Orne Jewett	1849 - 1909
Iris Johansen	1938 -
Samuel Johnson	1709 - 1784
Eyvind Johnson	1900 - 1976
Tayari Jones	1970 -
William Joyce	1906 - 1946
H. Stanley Judd	-
Heidi Julavits	1968 -
Sebastian Junger	1962 -
Erich Kastner	1899 - 1974
Sam Keen	-
Sam Keith	-
Helen Keller	1880 - 1968
Yoshida Kenko	1283 - 1350
Rose Kennedy	1890 - 1995
Ken Kesey	1935 - 2001
Francis Scott Key	1779 - 1843
Tracy Kidder	1945 -
Stephen King	1947 -
Robert Kiyosaki	1947 -
Edward Klein	1937 -
Grenville Kleiser	1868 - 1953
Fletcher Knebel	1911 - 1993
Deborah Copaken Kogan	1966 -
E. L. Konigsburg	1930 -
Dean Koontz	1945 -
Michael Koryta	1982 -
Elizabeth Kostova	1964 -
Jonathan Krohn	1995 -
Arthur Kroker	1945 -
Louis L'Amour	1908 - 1988
Ninon de L'Enclos	1620 - 1705
Mercedes Lackey	1950 -
Lactantius	240 - 320
Carmen Laforet	1921 - 2004
Jhumpa Lahiri	1967 -
Wally Lamb	-
Anne Lamott	1954 -
Jeremy Larner	1937 -
Erik Larson	1954 -
Steig Larsson	1954 - 2004
Teresa de Lauretis	-
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont	1846 - 1870
Vernon Lee	1856 - 1935
Sandra Lee	1966 -
Dennis Lehane	1965 -
Jonah Lehrer	1981 -
Charlotte Lennox	1727 - 1804
Donna Leon	1942 -
Julie de Lespinasse	1732 - 1776
Sam Levenson	1911 - 1980
Eliphas Levi	1810 - 1875
Mark Levin	1957 -
C. S. Lewis	1898 - 1963
Wyndham Lewis	1882 - 1957
David Limbaugh	1952 -
Astrid Lindgren	1907 - 2002
Laura Lippman	1959 -
Penelope Lively	1933 -
David Lodge	1935 -
Hugh Lofting	1886 - 1947
Haniel Long	1888 - 1956
Alice Roosevelt Longworth	1884 - 1980
Barry Lopez	1945 -
Walter Lord	1917 - 2002
Robert Lowth	1710 - 1787
Edward Luck	1948 -
Hugh MacLennan	1907 - 1990
Ann Macbeth	1875 - 1948
Arthur Machen	1863 - 1947
Ben Macintyre	1963 -
Carolyn Mackler	1973 -
Norman Maclean	1902 - 1990
Debbie Macomber	1948 -
Bryan Magee	1930 -
Margaret Mahy	1936 -
Michael Malone	-
Thomas Malory	1405 - 1471
Andre Malraux	1901 - 1976
Albert Maltz	1908 - 1985
Ernest Mandel	1923 - 1995
Michael Mandelbaum	-
Og Mandino	1923 - 1996
Katherine Mansfield	1888 - 1923
Greil Marcus	1945 -
Merrill Markoe	-
Karl Marlantes	1944 -
Yann Martel	1963 -
Judith Martin	1938 -
George R. R. Martin	1948 -
Harry Mathews	1930 -
Anne McCaffrey	1926 -
Bruce McCall	1935 -
Mary McCarthy	1912 - 1989
Robert McCloskey	1914 - 2003
Steve McConnell	-
Frank McCourt	1930 -
Colleen McCullough	1937 -
Bryant McGill	1969 -
Phyllis McGinley	1905 - 1978
Joe McGinniss	1942 -
Terry McMillan	1951 -
Ian Mcewan	1948 -
Louise Mensch	1971 -
Thomas Merton	1915 - 1968
Joyce Meyer	1943 -
Stephenie Meyer	1973 -
Ben Mezrich	1969 -
Edna St. Vincent Millay	1892 - 1950
Henry Miller	1891 - 1980
Keith Miller	1927 -
Dan Millman	1946 -
Denene Millner	-
A. A. Milne	1882 - 1956
Yukio Mishima	1925 - 1970
Nancy Mitford	1904 - 1973
Alfred A. Montapert	-
L. M. Montgomery	1874 - 1942
Susanna Moodie	1803 - 1885
Elizabeth Moon	1945 -
Judith Moore	1940 - 2006
Thomas More	1478 - 1535
Karl Philipp Moritz	1756 - 1793
Christopher Morley	1890 - 1957
Michael Morpurgo	1943 -
Dick Morris	1948 -
Kate Morton	1976 -
Kate Mosse	1961 -
Iris Murdoch	1919 - 1999
Heidi Murkoff	-
Lauren Myracle	1969 -
Jan Myrdal	1927 -
Ted Nelson	1937 -
Cornelius Nepos	100 BC - 24 BC
Kent Nerburn	-
Jo Nesbo	1960 -
Henry Newbolt	1862 - 1938
Andrea Newman	1938 -
Anais Nin	1903 - 1977
Diana Nyad	1949 -
Flannery O'Connor	1925 - 1964
Frank O'Connor	1903 - 1966
Michael Ondaatje	1943 -
Suze Orman	1951 -
George Orwell	1903 - 1950
Adam Osborne	1939 - 2003
Marc Ostrofsky	1961 -
Camille Paglia	1947 -
Bristol Palin	1990 -
Gail Parent	1940 -
Sara Paretsky	1947 -
Ruth Park	1923 -
Francine Pascal	1938 -
Ann Patchett	1963 -
James Patterson	1947 -
Jean Paul	1763 - 1825
Thomas Love Peacock	1785 - 1866
Donn Pearce	1928 -
Ridley Pearson	1953 -
Louise Penny	1958 -
Charles Perrault	1628 - 1703
Fernando Pessoa	1888 - 1935
Ellis Peters	1913 - 1995
Julia Phillips	1944 - 2002
Jodi Picoult	1966 -
Daniel Pinkwater	1941 -
Daniel Pipes	1949 -
Charles Platt	1945 -
Emily Post	1872 - 1960
Chaim Potok	1929 - 2002
Beatrix Potter	1866 - 1943
Stephen Potter	1900 - 1969
Terry Prachett	1948 -
Terry Pratchett	1948 -
Douglas Preston	1956 -
Anthony Price	1928 -
Marcel Proust	1871 - 1922
Kyle D. Pruett	-
Manuel Puig	1932 - 1990
Erik Qualman	1972 -
Salvatore Quasimodo	1901 - 1968
Thomas de Quincey	1785 - 1859
Jonathan Raban	1942 -
Raymond Radiguet	1903 - 1923
Arthur Ransome	1884 - 1967
Eric S. Raymond	1957 -
Myrtle Reed	1874 - 1911
Nigel Rees	1944 -
Harold Robbins	1916 - 1997
Tom Robbins	1936 -
Tony Robbins	1960 -
Nora Roberts	1950 -
Jane Roberts	1929 - 1984
James Rollins	1961 -
Jules Romains	1885 - 1972
Joel Rosenberg	1954 -
Veronica Roth	1988 -
Constance Rourke	1885 - 1941
J. K. Rowling	1965 -
Gabrielle Roy	1909 - 1983
Miguel Angel Ruiz	1952 -
Jane Rule	1931 -
Fred Saberhagen	1930 -
William Safire	1929 - 2009
R. A. Salvatore	1959 -
John Ralston Saul	1947 -
Dorothy L. Sayers	1893 - 1957
Steven Saylor	1956 -
Anne Wilson Schaef	-
Edith Schaeffer	1914 -
Richard Schickel	1933 -
Lisa Scottoline	1955 -
Idries Shah	1924 - 1996
Robert Shea	1909 - 1994
Robert Sheckley	1928 - 2005
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	1797 - 1851
Sara Shepard	1977 -
Carol Shields	1935 - 2003
David K. Shipler	1942 -
John Shirley	1953 -
Craig Shirley	-
Ignazio Silone	1900 - 1978
Dan Simmons	1948 -
David Simon	1960 -
Upton Sinclair	1878 - 1968
Simon Sinek	1973 -
John Sladek	1937 - 2000
Samuel Smiles	1812 - 1904
Tavis Smiley	1964 -
Seth Grahame-Smith	1976 -
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	1918 - 2008
Christina Hoff Sommers	1950 -
Susan Sontag	1933 - 2004
Sister Souljah	1964 -
Nicholas Sparks	1965 -
Catherine Helen Spence	1825 - 1910
Mickey Spillane	1918 - 2006
Norman Spinrad	1940 -
Dana Spiotta	-
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael	1766 - 1817
Gertrude Stein	1874 - 1946
John Steinbeck	1902 - 1968
Leslie Stephen	1832 - 1904
Maggie Stiefvater	1981 -
Clifford Stoll	-
Marie Carmichael Stopes	1880 - 1958
Marie Stopes	1880 - 1958
Anthony Storr	1920 - 2001
Harriet Beecher Stowe	1811 - 1896
Jacqueline Susann	1918 - 1974
Ben Sweetland	-
Sophie Swetchine	1782 - 1857
Graham Swift	1949 -
Gay Talese	1932 -
Junichiro Tanizaki	1886 - 1965
Laini Taylor	1971 -
Sara Teasdale	1884 - 1933
Sheri S. Tepper	1929 -
Tertullian	160 - 225
Kay Thompson	1909 - 1998
Henry David Thoreau	1817 - 1862
Alvin Toffler	1928 -
Jean Toomer	1894 - 1967
Paul Tournier	1898 - 1986
Brian Tracy	-
Simon Travaglia	-
William Trogdon	1939 -
Anthony Trollope	1815 - 1882
Mark Twain	1835 - 1910
Andrew Vachss	1942 -
Jack Vance	1916 -
Amy Vanderbilt	1908 - 1974
Marcus Terentius Varro	116 BC - 27 BC
Robert Vaughan	-
Jules Verne	1828 - 1905
Joan D. Vinge	1948 -
Judith Viorst	1932 -
A. E. van Vogt	1912 - 2000
Kurt Vonnegut	1922 - 2007
Sarah Vowell	1969 -
Terry Waite	1939 -
Amy Waldman	1969 -
Alice Walker	1944 -
Karen Thompson Walker	-
Larry Wall	1949 -
Irving Wallace	1916 - 1990
Horace Walpole	1717 - 1797
Neale Donald Walsch	1943 -
Mika Waltari	1908 - 1979
J. Donald Walters	-
Evelyn Waugh	1903 - 1966
Auberon Waugh	1939 - 2001
William Weaver	1923 -
David Weber	1952 -
H. G. Wells	1866 - 1946
Carolyn Wells	1862 - 1942
Eudora Welty	1909 - 2001
Franz Werfel	1890 - 1945
Jessamyn West	1902 - 1984
Rebecca West	1892 - 1983
Edith Wharton	1862 - 1937
Patrick White	1912 - 1990
Stuart Wilde	-
Laura Ingalls Wilder	1867 - 1957
Kit Williams	-
Terry Tempest Williams	1955 -
Marianne Williamson	1952 -
Henry Williamson	1895 - 1977
Kevin Williamson	1965 -
Nathaniel Parker Willis	1806 - 1867
Gary Wills	1934 -
Daniel H. Wilson	1978 -
Simon Winchester	1944 -
Don Winslow	1953 -
Kathleen Winsor	1919 - 2003
John Sergeant Wise	1846 - 1913
Naomi Wolf	1962 -
Virginia Woolf	1882 - 1941
Leonard Woolf	1880 - 1969
Henry Wotton	1568 - 1639
Lawrence Wright	1947 -
Lu Xun	1881 - 1936
Frank Yerby	1916 - 1991
Daniel Yergin	1947 -
Vash Young	-
Marguerite Young	1908 - 1995
William P. Young	1955 -
Lu Yu	733 - 804
Lin Yutang	1895 - 1976
Sarah Zettel	1966 -
Cecily von Ziegesar	1970 -
Zig Ziglar	1926 -
Pliny the Elder	23 - 79