Great Authors Quotes
- Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar
- 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
- The great authors share their souls with us- "literally. — Ursula K. Le Guin
- 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 faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. — Andre Gide
- All great authors are seers. — George Henry Lewes
- 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
- 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
- The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Mortimer Adler
- We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works… — Samuel Johnson