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
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
“The name Maldoror, suggesting as it does evil, gold, horror, dawn, sadness etc., seems a curious hybrid, but on reading the work… — Alexis Lykiard Copy Share Image
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about… — Lord Byron 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
It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head… — Cormac McCarthy 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.” — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
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Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is… — Jaron Lanier 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
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