Books Quote by Willis Regier

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

— Paul Eldridge

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

— Samuel Johnson

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“The forms of direct-half-hidden and completely hidden quoting were endlessly varied, as were the forms for framing quotations by a context, forms of intonational…

— Mikhail Bakthin

Writing quotes, Writers

— Vanna Bonta

“Authors," he murmured with a grin. "You all think your work is flawless, and anyone who tries to change a single word is an…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette

“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

— Steve Carlton

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

“The fool spoke precisely as he wrote, in convoluted paragraphs that any worthwhile editor would want to set on fire.”

— Eliot Grayson

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to…

— Pierre Bayle