Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it enough… — Unknown Author
Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or… — Paul Kropp
As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carrâ€™s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speakâ€”a whispering that… — Eileen Myles
Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they… — Unknown Author
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture… — Elihu Palmer
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo… — Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. — John M. Ford
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I… — Ludwig Feuerbach
President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would… — John Doolittle
An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to… — John McCain
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan… — Augusten Burroughs
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words. — Ken Follett
Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and… — Jeffery Deaver
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where… — Alfred Jarry
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a… — James Schuyler
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much… — Eliza Haywood
Time is the best author. Â It always writes the perfect ending. — Charlie Chaplin
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birdsâ€”the… — Chuck Jones

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