Top 1200 Great Author Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

I became a children's author by accident. As far as I'm concerned, I write for everybody.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.

Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

To be true to a play, you can't add something that takes away from the author's intent.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

The YA author community is generally pretty friendly, and they care.

It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.

We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also.