Author Pride Quotes

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder.

You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby, it's a great feeling.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.

When I get an email from someone who says, 'Your book was the first book I ever read,' or, 'Your book is what made me love reading,' it's just such an honor.

Ideally, I would like everyone in the world to read and love my novels. In fact, I can't believe that everyone in the world doesn't love them. What is there not to love?

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

I had not expected to ever be in a position to able to say, 'Hey, see the magazine with J. Lo on the cover? They reviewed my book inside.'

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.

I'm living two blocks away from this library - and I don't know why I was so elated about this - but I'm in my mesh jogging shorts in the elevator and I saw that my book 'Swamplandia!' was their book club selection. And I was over the moon.