Author Quotes
1140 quotes by 867 authors
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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 habit of identifying the author…
— Margaret Atwood
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he…
— Henry Adams
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each…
— Robert Benchley
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
— Robert Benchley
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It…
— Robert Benchley
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
— Joyce Brothers
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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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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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
— Samuel Butler
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A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it…
— Herb Caen
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I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
— Tony Campolo
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
— Sherman Alexie
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The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.
— Emanuel Celler
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
— Isabel Allende
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