Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like
authors for the same reasons.
View quotes by Robertson DaviesIn 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 ElderThe 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 GoetheGreat
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 GideWriting 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 MauroisThe chief glory of every people arises from its
authors.
View quotes by Samuel JohnsonThe Internet offers
authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom
View quotes by Frederick ForsythThe 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 HobbesAll
authors to their own defects are blind.
View quotes by John DrydenYoung
authors give their brains much exercise and little food
View quotes by Joseph JoubertAuthors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air
View quotes by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI 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 DennettInvariably 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 AsprinIt's a dangerous thing for people like me to romanticise. [People like me means
authors and writers]
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