Earnest Quote by Charles Kingsley

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah,…

— Geoff Dyer

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

— Ambrose Bierce

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that…

— Josh Radnor

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

— Theodor Adorno

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially…

— Ernest Hemingway

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

— Paul Kingsnorth

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who…

— Mark Twain

“While I do see lots of repetitious writing among authors, that does not apply to all, and certainly not to me. Average minds think…

— Calvin W. Allison