Amusement Quote by Harriet Martineau

“The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

— Adam Rapp

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work…

— John Updike

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own…

— Irene C. Kassorla

“The transition of ownership for the authorship of your life is handed off to you whether you are ready or not and no one…

— Nate Green

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and…

— Mark Twain

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

— Horace Walpole

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

— George Sand

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