Top 1200 Great Author Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

I love going through fashion magazines, love to read - Paulo Coelho is my favourite author.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.

I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).

If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.

The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.