Author Quotes - page 2

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. View quote
Colette
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. View quote
Edith Wharton
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? View quote
George Fox
Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. View quote
Henry Adams
Truth is "Mormonism." God is the author of it. View quote
Joseph Smith
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. View quote
Voltaire
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. View quote
Voltaire
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I would very much like to become a best-selling author. (Manuel Puig)
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that. View quote
Ben Mezrich
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was. View quote
Dick Bruna
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words. View quote
Ken Follett
I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. View quote
Max Frisch
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed. (William Hazlitt)
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. View quote
Umberto Eco
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. View quote
Norman Cousins
There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot. View quote
S. M. Stirling
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable. View quote
Augustus