Authors Quotes

523 Authors quotes by 418 unique authors

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. — Dorothy Parker
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and… — Henry David Thoreau
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . — Michael Lewis
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is… — Mark Twain
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and… — Neil Gaiman
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I… — Lauren Willig
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in… — Robin McKinley
Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research. — Walter Moers
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage… — Robertson Davies
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 “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to… — David Levithan
In my profession it isn’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 Matilda’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

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