Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Our lives are like books; we are merely characters in each other's stories. While we can impact each other's plotlines, respecting the… — Erick "The Black Sheep" G Copy Share Image
“The transition of ownership for the authorship of your life is handed off to you whether you are ready or not and… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels. — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
“The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre… — Horace Copy Share Image
But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“You have to regain control of the authorship of your life and realize that no one else is going to write the… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me… — Donna Scrima-Black Copy Share Image
Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
![“Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]” quote by Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/039/samuel-johnson-50_authorship_who-left-nothing-of-authorship-untouched_2931992.png)
![“All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and authorship is lost. That's why you're seeing superstars like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT CLUB and Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA. They're desperately…” quote by Paul Schrader](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e40/paul-schrader-14587_authorship_all-these-teachers-and-screenwriting-boo_176880.png)
![“Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]” quote by Horace](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c30/horace-172_authorship_too-indolent-to-bear-the-toil-of-writing_2799955.jpg)
![“But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.” quote by George Pattison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/44a/george-pattison-17005_approach_but-inevitably-as-he-kierkegaard-approac_610234.jpg)
![“Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]” quote by Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1f0/ovid-276_agamemnon_writings-survive-the-years-it-is-by-writ_3195010.png)
