Authors Quotes

523 quotes by 418 authors

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be… — Alexis De Tocqueville
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and… — Robertson Davies
I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.… — Winston Churchill
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most… — William Ellery Channing
Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. — C.S. Lewis
When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to… — Erica Jong
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up… — Ernest Hemingway
We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works… — Samuel Johnson
Life is a quest in which every person is willing to know oneself. For this purpose, about me quotes are the right as well as… — Babloo
Love, whether it strikes at sixteen or sixty always brings with it a rush that is hard to capture in words. Despite this, many authors,… — Zoheb
We are the authors of our destinies. No one can see the vision any clearer, believe in and work any harder to make it a… — Unknown Author
There is a spirit that abides in me that is found at the dawn of each days consciousness. As consciousness arrives back in my body… — Marv Stark
The New Testament is a Biography of the life of Jesus, and the Testimony of all his Disciples and all the Authors and Apostles of… — Glen Rambharack
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't… — Ken Hill
The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold… — Richard Curtis
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because… — James Laughlin

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