Agents Quote by Paul Bailey

“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

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

— Anonymous

“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

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted…

— Parker J. Palmer

One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In…

— Robert Aris Willmott

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

“Looking back through the last page or two, I see that I have made it appear as though my motives in writing were wholly…

— George Orwell

“Writing a book is a horrible exhausting struggle; one would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon.”

— J.D. Salinger

“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest…

— E. Hoffman Price

Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers…

— Brian Stableford

Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage…

— Matt Fraction

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

— Anonymous