Authors Quotes

523 Authors quotes by 418 unique authors

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet… — Walter Jon Williams
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes. — Vera Brittain
Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory,… — Martin Luther
It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking,… — Cleveland Amory
We need to be the authors of our own life. — Peter Senge
The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time. — Roger Angell
Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate… — James Dean
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. — William Feather
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another… — Nicole Kidman
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè. — John Milton
The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which… — F. F. Bruce
Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination… — Tom Shippey
The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated with them. The ancient prediction that Dzogchen… — Tsultrim Allione
I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of… — Kazuo Ishiguro
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous… — Norman MacCaig
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust… — Dan Simmons
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to… — Richard Russo
Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for… — Joseph Addison
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a… — Oliver Burkeman
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than… — Jorge Luis Borges
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors. — Walter Jon Williams

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