Authorship Quote by Egerton Brydges

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not…

— Mary MacLane

People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn…

— Dave Barry

“The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond snogging, I…

— Fiona Pitt-Kethley

I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use the F…

— Ellen Hopkins

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

— Samuel Johnson

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his…

— George Orwell

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege,…

— Charles Lamb

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

— Bram Cohen

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

— Walker Percy