It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me… — Donna Scrima-Black 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
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here… — Alexander Pope 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
It's the next phase of authorship of this country's energy future. It's gonna come from the people. It's not gonna be deus… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels. — Mark Rylance 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
“The transition of ownership for the authorship of your life is handed off to you whether you are ready or not and… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
“Our lives are like books; we are merely characters in each other's stories. While we can impact each other's plotlines, respecting the… — Erick "The Black Sheep" G 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
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
“The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. — Douglas William Jerrold 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
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
“The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret,… — U.G. Krishnamurti 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
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
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] — Horace 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
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
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
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