“What works now is content that galvanizes people. Instagram pages that turn into book deals have followers that do more than just smile and keep scrolling. These pages can show that the content is being reposted and shared to people who aren’t even on Instagram. Those are the signs of an Instagram b…”— Rachel Vogel, Rachel Kramer Bussel, forbes.com
“At some point fate takes over a story and even the author himself loses control.”— Alena Smith, Yvonne, Joanna Gleason, imdb.com
“An author’s fondest dream is to turn the reader into a spectator; is this ever attained?”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Once the Author is gone, the claim to 'decipher' a text becomes quite useless. To give an Author to a text is to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing.”— Roland Barthes, tbook.constantvzw.org
“Although everybody started his life by inserting himself into the human world through action and speech, nobody is the author or producer of his own life story... Somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense of the word, namely, its actor and sufferer, but nobody is its author.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com