Authorship Quote by Bill Vaughan

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him

— Samuel Johnson

“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he…

— Thomas Hardy

“the activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead…

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

— Ouida

The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to…

— Louis Sullivan

“We first hear of temples to the gods under the IVth Dynasty, but of the actual buildings of that period we have recovered nothing…

— Leonard William King

“But when Aragorn arose all that beheld him gazed in silence, for it seemed to them that he was revealed to them now for…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid…

— John Milton

“The fact that Bultmann proceeds from a pastoral and missionary motive - namely, to preserve modern man from rejecting the New Testament because of…

— G C Berkouwer

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Just as Shakespeare filled his works with straightforward storylines, sex, violence, and bawdy jokes for the “groundlings” (the uneducated peasants who stood or sat…

— Benjamin Blech