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
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.] — Horace 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
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
When an author has a very unique or specific input, whether it's intentional or unintentional, the era that person lives in, their… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly… — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the… — Denis Diderot 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
My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can… — Charles Lloyd 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
Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas,… — Horace Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. — John Gay Copy Share Image