Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.