Author Quality Quotes

Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.

I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attracted stronger writers as it's started to thrive.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.