Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

Who was this Man of sorrows, acquainted with grief? Who is the King of glory, this Lord of hosts? He is our Master. He is… — Thomas S. Monson
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are… — Anne Bronte
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones. — David Brin
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice. — Edmund Wilson
A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir. — Tony Blankley
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at… — J. Courtney Sullivan
Will we listen to "Satan, the author of all lies . . . ? Or are we going to believe a loving Heavenly Father, who… — Richard C. Edgley
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. — Edward Albee
In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to… — Pope Pius XI
Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Iâ€™m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited to my eccentricities,… — Mary Pope Osborne
It takes courage to be the author of your life. — Nicholas Lore
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and… — Philip K. Dick
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty… — R C Sproul
Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. Â With lovely… — Catherine Asaro
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make… — Herman Kahn
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. — Anthony Trollope

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