Authority Quote by Philip Pullman

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

— Ismail Kadaré

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

— Junot Diaz

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

— John Derbyshire

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)

— Pseudonymous Bosch

“Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it…

— Geoff Ryman

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any…

— Ernest Hemingway

A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but…

— John Steinbeck

“It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.”

— Eric Robert Morse

“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers,…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders…

— Anonymous

“I am a passionate seeker after Truth and a not less passionate enemy of the malignant fictions used by the "Party of Order", the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

— Anna Brownell Jameson