Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 867 authors

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever.… — Harlan Coben
I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science. — Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. — Mark Twain
Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember. — Eve Arden
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies… — Benjamin Franklin
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University… — Thomas Jefferson
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every… — John Peter Altgeld
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Choose an author as you choose a friend. — Christopher Wren
God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the… — Louis Berkhof
It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the… — Wayne Grudem
Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . . We must conclude… — J. Oliver Buswell
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction… — Jim Rohn
God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness. — Daniel J. Boorstin
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham
In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her… — Arthur Miller
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. — Frank Moore Colby

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