Top 1200 Great Author Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.

I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being told.

I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?