Top 1200 Great Author Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?

Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

As an author, I love to know my book sells really well.

The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view.

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

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The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a great and beautiful novel which mainly involved shallow people going to parties in a rich guy's house. By contrast, all sorts of terrible books are published every month about men slaughtering people for no reason - a serious matter which, in itself, does not make the author worthy of serious consideration.

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.

My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply every human defect; that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good.

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.