Authorship Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they…

— Anonymous

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

— Alexander Pope

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the…

— Voltaire

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

— Jonathan Ames

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the…

— Louise Erdrich

And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.

— Daphne du Maurier

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and…

— Philip Pullman

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some…

— Martin Luther

“ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS: Be very careful who you give acknowledgement to in your books. Reason: That acknowledgement is in permanent, ink and they are…

— Anita R. Sneed-Carter

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

— Donna Tartt