Authors Quote by Mary Russell Mitford

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

— John Farrar

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

— Anonymous

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer…

— Mark Twain

“Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.”

— Frank Gaspar

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

— Nina Jacobson

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is…

— Orhan Pamuk

There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether…

— Hannah Arendt

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course on Joyce,…

— Philip Kitcher