Quote by Matthew Gregory Lewis Download Open image ““Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.”” — Matthew Gregory Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
“I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
“You have to regain control of the authorship of your life and realize that no one else is going to write the story for… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.” — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
“My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing… — Chasta Schneider Copy Share Image
“Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.” — Blaque Diamond Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!” — Rachel Rueben Copy Share Image
“Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“When I said I should die in your service with pleasure, I intended to live in it many long years; since, to tell you… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“I will go," said Lorenzo. And Lorenzo stayed, where he was.” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism,… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“Escribir es una manía frente a la cual ninguna razón es suficientemente sólida; tan fácil sería convencerme a mí de que no ame, como… — matthew gregory lewis Copy Share Image
“Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
