Top 1200 Great Author Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.

I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus.

I'm sure every author has their own process.

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a great short story writer, and a great novelist - I'd put novelist last.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

For sure working with Ferrari is a great pleasure. It's a great team, it's a great experience and it's a great dream as well to be there.

God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

Every man is the author of his own life.

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

To be authentic literally means to be your own author.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

Pearl Buck was my mother's favorite author.

If we are not personally engaged in God's great mission in the world, then we have missed the very thing he created us to do. We are like birds meant to fly but living in a cage; fish meant to swim but floundering on the beach. It makes sense when you think about it. If the Author of the universe created us to play a key role in his unfolding drama but we have failed to find our place in that story, then of course we would feel incomplete.

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.