Quotes About Authors

Se encontraba totalmente absorto en esa especie de contemplación estática en la que una autor ve surgir, una a una, todas sus ideas, por boca de los autores, entre el silencio de todo el auditorio

Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

Character determines action," she said, slowly, at last. "That is the secret of the great novelists. They put themselves behind and within their characters, and so make us feel that every act of their personages is not only natural but even—given the conditions—inevitable.

Copyediting is helping the words survive the misconceptions of their authors.

Oh, I cannot understand these points — absolutely I cannot. And the strangest, most unintelligible fact of all is that authors actually can select such occurrences for their subject! I confess this too to pass my comprehension, to -But no; I will say just that I do not understand it. In the first place, a course of the sort never benefits the country. And in the second place — in the second place, a course of the sort never benefits anything at all. I cannot divine the use of it.

Books that get burned are written by authors whose souls are on fire with passion or knowledge.

Reviewers are forever telling authors, they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?

Let standard-authors, thus, like trophies borne, Appear more glorious as more hack'd and torn. And you, my critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner. It is much better to confine yourself to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.

I don't know any writers who don't drink.

To be sure, the hard-to-come-by interview - the 'get' - isn't an uncommon phenomenon here at 'The Daily Show.' We've had high-profile dignitaries, low-profile indignitaries, stars you've heard of, authors you should have read.

Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other.

During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest repute, for and against the Trinity, original sin, and the most disputed doctrines, but I was not yet of an understanding sufficiently ripe for impartial decision, and all my inquiries terminated in Calvinism.

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

You will find professed quotations from authors, of the correctness of which you will not be satisfied; and how important is it to be able to satisfy yourself by examining the originals!

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

I'm a book nerd, and I've seen authors that I love, I've gone and seen them speak or read from a book.