“I want to be an author.” — Harry Lloyd Quote

“I want to be an author.”

“The whole world of 'Game of Thrones' was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.”

“My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.”

“It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.”

“The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera.”

“Part of George R.R. Martin's brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.”

“All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.”

“When you read 'author Katharine Holabird, creator of Angelina' and you're not even mentioned, you wince.”

“Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade.”

“The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.”

“The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.”

“Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.”