Author's Message Quotes

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Man’s writing has but one true sense, which is that which the Author meant when he writ it.

All my books are optimistic!

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.

I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.