Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.… — Oscar Wilde
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making… — Graham Lowe
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad… — James Dickey
I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't… — Tony Kushner
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than… — Jorge Luis Borges
Every man is the author of his own life. — Paul Auster
I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick… — Max Cleland
No sensible author wants anything but praise. — A A Milne
Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love… — Kendrick Lamar
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world. — Joanna Trollope
I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good. — Seneca the Younger
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace? — William Cowper
This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of… — Stanislav Grof
The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning.… — Celeste Ng
To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina. — Roman Coppola
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors… — W G Sebald
My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more… — Euell Gibbons
Saying noâ€, argues the author Kevin Ashton, â€œhas more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we… — Kevin Ashton
There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Aspergerâ€™s syndrome. Fiction allows the… — Tony Attwood
Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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