"Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as……" — Benjamin Franklin

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• If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a… — Margaret Atwood
• The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by… — Henry Adams
• After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new… — Robert Benchley
• I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than… — Robert Benchley
• There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first… — Robert Benchley
• Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we… — Ezra Taft Benson
• Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his… — Sarah Bernhardt
• You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. — Jeff Bezos
• I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who… — Andrea Bocelli
• If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. — Joyce Brothers
• Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean de la Bruyere
• The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks. — Nolan Bushnell

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