Authorship Quote by Lord Byron

“The public will hear of nothing but rogues; and the only way in which poor authors, who must live, can act honestly by the…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

— Ambrose Bierce

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly…

— Jim Goad

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

— Alexander Pope

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the…

— Tara Bray Smith

“A good author is he who isn’t afraid to speak his mind; he who dictates the art of the verse. A scribbler who merely…

— Leila Samarrai

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

— Bergen Evans

“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