Authors Quotes
523 quotes by 418 authors
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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
— Samuel Johnson
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to…
— Erica Jong
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to…
— Erica Jong
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All great authors are seers.
— George Henry Lewes
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
— Sinclair Lewis
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My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
— Kevin McCloud
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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read…
— George Mikes
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do.…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that…
— Conan O'Brien
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One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
— Conor Oberst
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I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps?…
— Susan Orlean
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Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
— George Orwell
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I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with…
— Jodi Picoult
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
— Cole Porter
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former…
— Pliny the Elder
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
— Salman Rushdie
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