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Famous Quotes about Authors
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Meaningful Quotes about Authors
Choose an author as you choose a friend.—Earl of
Roscommon.
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as,
in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of
fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from the
field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the
dinner.—Longfellow.
It is a doubt whether mankind are most indebted to those who, like Bacon
and Butler, dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who,
like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it
currency and utility.—Colton.
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.—Roger
Ascham.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the
late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains
and never disdains.
James A. Michener
He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.—Dryden.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the
sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose
judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.—Douglas Jerrold.
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the
first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to
say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't
think what to do with the long winter evenings.
Quentin Crisp
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this
self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the
mind.—Cervantes.
There are three difficulties in authorship—to write anything worth the
publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to
read it.—Colton.
An author! 'Tis a venerable name!
How few deserve it, and what numbers claim!
Unblest with sense above their peers refin'd,
Who shall stand up, dictators to mankind?
Nay, who dare shine, if not in virtue's cause?
That sole proprietor of just applause.
—Young.
Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it;
and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on
it.—Richter.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things
familiar, and familiar things new.—Thackeray.
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is
to possess at once intellect, soul and taste.—Buffon.
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.—Joubert.
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