Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists… — Pat Robertson
I am the freest author in the world. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. — Salman Rushdie
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout. — Salman Rushdie
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave… — Paul Ryan
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. — Marquis de Sade
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author,… — Jose Saramago
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. — David Sedaris
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the… — Jane Smiley
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. — Logan Pearsall Smith
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. — Logan Pearsall Smith
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's… — Stephen Sondheim
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author… — Tom Stoppard
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of… — James Surowiecki
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly… — Matt Taibbi
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find… — Amy Tan
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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