Authorship Quotes

32 quotes by 27 authors

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
Peopleâ€™s interest is in the product, not in its authorship, — Jonathan Ive
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do… — U.G. Krishnamurti
And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels. — Mark Rylance
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere… — Mark Twain
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign… — Lawrence Venuti
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and… — Paul Schrader
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies… — Joseph Addison
Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. — John Kenneth Galbraith
If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts… — Ayn Rand
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable… — David Knopfler
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells,… — Henry Ward Beecher
All authors to their own defects are blind. — John Dryden
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. — Edmund Burke
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. — Philip James Bailey
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those… — Vera Brittain
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood,… — John Dryden
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton

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