Authors Quotes

523 quotes by 418 authors

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of… — Richard Dawkins
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish… — James Thurber
Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible. — Bart D. Ehrman
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they… — Hannah Arendt
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Mortimer Adler
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase â€œyoung adultâ€ â€“ too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to… — David Levithan
In my profession it isnâ€™t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best… — Walter Moers
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
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! — Terry Pratchett
So Matildaâ€™s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world… — Roald Dahl
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works… — Washington Irving
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera
And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident… — Vincent Van Gogh
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --… — Hannah Arendt
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, itâ€™s not its fault. Thatâ€™s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought:… — Arthur Rimbaud
And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would… — Viktor E. Frankl
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap… — Stephen Fry
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? — Alexander Pope

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