Quotes:The 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 JarryAn
author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
View quotes by Charles MontesquieuThere is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first
author of that thought.
View quotes by Pierre BayleIn 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 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 RohnMaking 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 BruyereAnd, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an
author can have nothing truly his own but his style
View quotes by Isaac DisraeliChoose an
author as you choose a friend (Essay on Translated Verse)
View quotes by Earl Of RoscommonA critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an
author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius
View quotes by Walter LandorReading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the
author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
View quotes by Cynthia HeimelLiterary 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 DaviesIf you steal from one
author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research.
View quotes by John BurkeThe two most engaging powers of an
author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
View quotes by William Makepeace ThackerayA good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its
author.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton'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.
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