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• There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to… — Charles Caleb Colton
• People’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,… — U.G. Krishnamurti
• And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different… — Mark Rylance
• Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out… — Mark Twain
• Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to… — Lawrence Venuti
• All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more… — Paul Schrader
• The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals;… — 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… — Ayn Rand
• Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw… — Henry Ward Beecher
• All authors to their own defects are blind. — John Dryden

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