Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Unfinished works of great Authors are a triumph not a tragedy, it shows they gave us their all till the end” — A.C. Quinn Copy Share Image
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Maugham described the novel as “the story of a nine days wonder in a Lambeth slum” and confessed to being influenced by… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Good teachers can make great authors accessible to new generations anywhere. — Damian Green Copy Share Image
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them;… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar Copy Share Image
Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“You’re totally wrong!” Rakoff cried. He explained that the rule against split infinitives was just a bizarre invention by some pedants in… — Jesse Eisinger Copy Share Image
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“When asked if he had a special feeling for books, critic-turned-filmmaker Francois Truffaut answered, "No. I love them and films equally, but… — Alexis Krasilovsky Copy Share Image
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk 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
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
