Authority Quote by John Geddes

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.

— Kenneth Burke

“True creation requires authority and authenticity.”

— Bryant McGill

“Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.”

— Barbara Johnson

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

“The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation.”

— Charles Baxter

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

— Anonymous

“Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.”

— Watchman Nee

“Writers are born, not created.”

— Tim Campbell

“There is no one creator, but there is the realm of creation.”

— Ayya Khema

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to…

— Herman Kahn

“There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes…

— Edward W. Said

“Creation, whether it's writing, painting or whatever, is essentially despotic and autocratic in nature, because it's the work of one mind and one mind…

— Philip Pullman