Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 867 authors

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The… — Julian Coolidge
The answer is the Savior who is the source and author of peace. — Quentin L. Cook
This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament; but it differs… — Pope Pius XII
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they… — Edmund Burke
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature… — Gottfried Leibniz
Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.… — James Monroe
Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the… — Richard Lindzen
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the… — Barack Obama
It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics… — Steve Kerr
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every… — G. M. Trevelyan
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he… — Ford Madox Ford
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds… — H. L. Mencken
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. — Ray Kurzweil
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. — Samuel Johnson
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at… — Samuel Johnson
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. — Russell Lynes
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton

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