Author Similarity Quotes

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

I'm not the next J. K. Rowling. We've got one already. It's flattering to be compared to her. I like her books and loved the first three particularly, but apart from the fact that they've got young boys as heroes, they're very different.

When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.