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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
View quotes by Robertson Davies

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All authors to their own defects are blind.
View quotes by John Dryden

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

View quotes by Samuel Johnson

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food
View quotes by Joseph Joubert

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom
View quotes by Frederick Forsyth

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air
View quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
View quotes by André Gide

Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors]
View quotes by Robert Asprin

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
View quotes by Daniel Dennett

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
View quotes by Andre Maurois

It's a dangerous thing for people like me to romanticise. [People like me means authors and writers]
View quotes by Ronald Harwood

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
View quotes by Pliny The Elder



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