Art Quote by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or…

— August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

“The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or…

— Harriet Martineau

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and…

— Mark Twain

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When an author has a very unique or specific input, whether it's intentional or unintentional, the era that person lives in, their environment where…

— Hideo Kojima

Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters…

— Maureen Johnson

“An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author, you have…

— Mischa Temaul

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

— George Sand

“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Our lives are like books; we are merely characters in each other's stories. While we can impact each other's plotlines, respecting the authorship of…

— Erick "The Black Sheep" G