Authorship Quote by Samuel Johnson

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

— Philip Schaff

Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.

— Iris Murdoch

It was apparent that no one could do for the scribe what the scribe had done for himself.

— George S. Clason

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

— Kevin Brockmeier

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

— Anonymous

“Without the author there is nothing.”

— Michael E. Bierman

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

— Aldous Huxley

“I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.”

— Mary Shelley

“At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a…

— Maurice Blanchot