Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture,… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. — Edwin Percy Whipple 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
I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera,… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple. — Josh Billings 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
“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of… — Edmund Burke 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
Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
