“I consider myself a Nordic author. But I do not know exactly what that is. I think it has something to do… — Lars Saabye Christensen Copy Share Image
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
“Some people have a lot of time, but no money-- It's because they don't work hard enough. Some people have a lot… — Bob Sharpe Copy Share Image
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“I've worked extremely hard to become what I naturally am and what I want to be. My manuscripts/books didn't write, rework, edit… — Bettina Victoria Copy Share Image
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
“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
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman 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
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and… — Peter C Bunnell 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
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there… — Martial Copy Share Image
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so,… — Herman Melville 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
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a… — August Wilhelm Von Schlegel 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
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
If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with… — Susan J. McIntire 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
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
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
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
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
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:… — Ovid 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
My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the… — Henry Adams 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 unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his… — John Dryden 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
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
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