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

~Brendan Behan

Topics: Author Back Cheque His Likes Most Signature Write

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I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

~Brent Weeks

Topics: Anything Art Author Believe Better Cast Equal Far His Imagination Inform Intuition Job Life Make Partner Should Spaces Think Using Will Work Your I Think I Believe I Believe That

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Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.

~Brent Weeks

Topics: Always Author Away Big Challenged Eat Fork Get Good Grapes Like More More And More Simultaneously Stories Story Telling Trying You Yourself

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I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?

~Brian Jacques

Topics: Alone Author Children Ever Morning Pinch Still Thought Up Wake Wake Up Who

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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

~Brooks Adams

Topics: Author Difference Five He Hundred Influence Read Readers Select Slight Thousand Whether

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

~Bruce Beresford

Topics: Author Best Bring Characters Film Intentions Life Try Understand

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There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.

~Bryan Burrough

Topics: Accurately Always Author Book His Hollywood Intact Nonfiction Sell Slight Story Tension Wants You

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My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

~Bryce Courtenay

Topics: Actor Author Different Entertainer Essentially Happen Job Just Musician

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John Austin, author of 'Cubicle Warfare,' has outdone himself with 'Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction,' a fully illustrated step-by-step guide to constructing thirty-five pocket-sized war machines, including a Clothespin Shooter, a Hanger Slingshot, a Paper-Clip Trebuchet, and Shoelace Darts.

~Camille Perri

Topics: Austin Author Constructing Darts Destruction Fully Guide Himself Illustrated Including John Machines Mass Mass Destruction Mini Shooter Thirty-Five War Warfare Weapons

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I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Actual Always Author Cattle Distance Good Moviemaking Prod Stay Think I Think

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