Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 867 authors

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor. — Ed Koch
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I… — Carl Van Vechten
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a… — David Halberstam
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. — Thomas Carlyle
The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text… — Jonathan Culler
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. — Edward Abbey
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. — Edward Abbey
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough… — Edward Abbey
The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. — Edward Abbey
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy… — Thomas Jefferson
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the… — George Washington
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that… — George Washington
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas… — Thomas Paine
There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates… — Richard Avedon
I shall be but a shrimp of an author. — Thomas Gray
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care… — Booth Tarkington
The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no… — Mark Van Doren
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while… — Giorgio Vasari
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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