Academia Quote by Anonymous

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has…

— Arthur Miller

“The more gifted of these individuals became writers or artists. Even though they were able to point to the truth in the literature and…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

“Is there anyone who has ever written so much as a love letter in which he felt that he had said exactly what he…

— George Orwell

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious,…

— Salman Rushdie

“The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed to paper,…

— Henry Spencer Ashbee

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves,…

— CK Webb

“Unless we are very young or lifelong fools, we do not look to artists --- or their biographers --- for our role models. Their…

— Jesse Kornbluth

“A blatant falsification, brought to dwell perpetually in the Agency archives, a stain in the shape of words!”

— Jedediah Berry