Authors Quote by William Scott

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were…

— James Mackintosh

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

— Aristotle

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

— Umberto Eco

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

— Aristotle

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation…

— Pericles

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau

Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —”…

— Anonymous

I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.'…

— Rick Riordan

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many…

— Flannery O'Connor

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to…

— Victor Hugo

I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.…

— Horace