Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single… — Henry Adams
Even the Savior of the world, the Only Begotten Son of God, was obliged to come to earth and to take upon himself an earthly… — Alma P Burton
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the… — Ambrose Bierce
It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him. — Luc de Clapiers
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim. — Elie Wiesel
Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. — Honore de Balzac
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover… — Joseph Addison
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the… — Joseph Addison
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses… — Ambrose Bierce
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. — Oscar Wilde
The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. — Samuel Johnson
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak… — Samuel Johnson
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. — Pablo Picasso
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take… — William Cowper
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. — Simone de Beauvoir
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness. — Cyril Connolly
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. — Roland Barthes
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. — Hosea Ballou
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist… — Neil Gaiman

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