--- title: "5 Authorial Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 5 Authorial quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Authorial sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/807/michael-jackson-411_academic_the-more-passive-one-s-life-in-the-field_1329169.jpg" --- > [The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-jackson/the-more-passive-one-s-life-in-the-field-the-greater-the-need-to/) [Michael Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-jackson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/807/michael-jackson-411_academic_the-more-passive-one-s-life-in-the-field_1329169.jpg) > [“I wonder what it is about a certain novel that ticks the boxes for a reader. I mean, for me, a story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-connelly/i-wonder-what-it-is-about-a-certain-novel-that-ticks-the-boxes-for-a/) [Victoria Connelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-connelly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/victoria-connelly-33485_books_i-wonder-what-it-is-about-a-certain-nove_2559194.jpg) > [An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-wright/an-excess-of-development-can-undermine-the-most-ephemeral-but/) [David Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-wright/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e5/david-wright-22775_born_an-excess-of-development-can-undermine-t_2708105.jpg) > [...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-will-continue-to-underscore-that-i-don-t-think-authorial-intent-is/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/john-green-12_books_i-will-continue-to-underscore-that-i-don_2967204.jpg) > [There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/there-was-in-my-view-an-unwritten-contract-with-the-reader-that-the/) [Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/ian-mcewan-494_books_there-was-in-my-view-an-unwritten-contra_3165402.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/authorial/#itemlist", "name": "Authorial Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoratative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. 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