Every Author Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions…
— Robertson Davies
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In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to…
— Robert Fortune
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Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of…
— Juan Rulfo
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It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in this real-world guide…
— Arthur Plotnik
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Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
— Samuel Johnson
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
— Voltaire
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?†The question is,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our…
— Jeff Kinney
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Every author has to eventually write a food book.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
— Nicola Cornick
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Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
— Cornelia Funke
Who Wrote These Every Author Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Every Author Quotes as follows: