Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers. — Leah Price
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is a satisfier, not… — John Baldoni
Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature ... — Pope Leo XIII
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends… — Samuel Johnson
It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became… — Soren Kierkegaard
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a… — Frank Smith
Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of… — Ulysses S. Grant
The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty. — Leslie Ludy
You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author… — Douglas Coupland
All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may not… — I. Bernard Cohen
I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Filmâ€™s thought of as a directorâ€™s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. Itâ€™s that stupid auteur theory again,… — Billy Wilder
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has… — W. Somerset Maugham
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with… — Matthew Scully
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes… — W. Somerset Maugham
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would… — Winston Churchill
Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said… — James M. Barrie
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does… — John Green
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page… — Henning Mankell

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