Authorship Quotes · Page 3

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

— Horace

All photographs are authored, but they just claim non-authorship.

— RaMell Ross

“Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.”

— Blaque Diamond

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

— Henry Ward Beecher

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some…

— Mark Rylance

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is…

— Vera Brittain

“I've worked extremely hard to become what I naturally am and what I want to be. My manuscripts/books didn't write, rework, edit…

— Bettina Victoria

“Some people have a lot of time, but no money-- It's because they don't work hard enough. Some people have a lot…

— Bob Sharpe

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there…

— Martial

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he…

— Charles Caleb Colton

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's…

— Alexander Pope

Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's the next phase of authorship of this country's energy future. It's gonna come from the people. It's not gonna be deus…

— Josh Fox

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he…

— Nicolas Chamfort

The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal…

— Marvin Ammori

Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as…

— Ouida

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather,…

— Joseph Addison

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like…

— Misha Collins

There's a lot of 'Batman' movies. This element that is 'Batman,' that remains unchanged. However, the theme around him is constantly changing.…

— Hideo Kojima

Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature…

— Anthony Trollope

“In the morning, nurture your mind with good books. At night, write yours.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

— Roger Ascham

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

— Joseph Joubert

“That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.”

— Lang Leav

“You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.”

— Robin Sacredfire

“The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author’s basic human…

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.”

— Dr. Kyaciss Pfiell

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to…

— Julian Darius

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

— Samuel Johnson

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

— Christopher Hitchens

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought…

— Thomas Carlyle