Authors Quotes

523 quotes by 418 authors

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them;… — William Styron
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that… — Anton Chekhov
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. — Paul Eldridge
Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do,… — Rollo May
Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors — Robert Asprin
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in… — Evelyn Lau
Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use,… — Eben Moglen
The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, .. Readers… — Laura Bush
There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors. — Vanna Bonta
There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book. — Witold Rybczynski
Beginning authors often get in their own way â€¦ They forget that theyâ€™ve been telling stories since they could talk. â€¦ The important thing to… — Cynthia Leitich Smith
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works.… — Criss Jami
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong;… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors… — Bill Vaughan
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his… — Ben Jonson
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole… — Alexander Pope

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