Authors Quotes

523 Authors quotes by 418 unique authors

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any… — Kate Mosse
One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you… — Sara Zarr
The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell… — Scott O'Dell
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to… — Ogden Nash
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and… — Louise Imogen Guiney
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. — Saint Augustine
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then… — Andre Maurois
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher
All authors to their own defects are blind. — John Dryden
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. — Alexander Pope
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 … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … 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

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