An
author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children
View quotes by Benjamin Disraeli'Is it easy to love God?' asks an old
author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.
View quotes by C S LewisChoose an
author as you choose a friend (Essay on Translated Verse)
View quotes by Earl Of RoscommonSix characters in search of an
author.
View quotes by Luigi PirandelloBorn in a cellar... and living in a garret (The
Author 1757)
View quotes by Samuel FooteAn
author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
View quotes by Charles MontesquieuI shall never be ashamed of citing a bad
author if the line is good.
View quotes by SenecaMaking a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an
author.
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereI think of an
author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, 'I will tell you a story,' and then he passes the hat.
View quotes by Robertson DaviesLiterary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every
author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
View quotes by Robertson DaviesThe two most engaging powers of an
author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
View quotes by William Makepeace ThackerayIf a secret history of books could be written, and the
author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
View quotes by William Makepeace ThackerayThe reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the
author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
View quotes by Jim RohnThe
author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
View quotes by Edward GibbonThe great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the
author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
View quotes by Henry MillerCertainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the
Author.
View quotes by Arthur MillerA bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the
author's soul.
View quotes by Aldous HuxleyIn America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an
author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
View quotes by TocquevilleThe virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the
author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
View quotes by Alfred JarryI have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the
author's political views.
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