Quotes About Author

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

I am searching for my feelings through shelves of dusty books can't help but feel I've left them in some forgotten ancient nooks as if an author long before me captured my emotions in his day and saved them in fine poetry for future me to find someway

Winter surfaces in the poet by late summer, and spring is already in his inkpot with the first snow.

WANTED: A needle swift enough To sew this poem into a blanket.

Give a Republican a fish and he'll think he learned how to fish. Teach him to fish and he'll call you socialist.

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

The man who never has been known to pun Will groan to point out he's a judge of one.

Its benefits to the poet are evident: the rhyme is merely a glorified pun, two strings of ideas bisociated in an acoustic knot.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

But I can't forbear quoting the Advice of a great Author...

Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority. Or whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonise.

But further, in order to embellish it with flowers of language and gems of thought, it is not necessary for this ornamentation to be spread evenly over the entire speech, but it must be so distributed that there may be brilliant jewels placed at various points as a sort of decoration.

The epigram is a scorpion; as the sting of the scorpion lieth in the tail, the force of the epigram is in its conclusion.

Here's a fun word… mollycoddle. Mollycoddle. Sounds like a Victorian sex act to me.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Accusing us of being a gimmick is a bit like accusing Jesus Christ of having 'a bit of a messiah complex'. True, maybe, but when faced with the undeniable genius of what we put out, does that really still matter?

But I was in a hurry, so I let him drive. I wasn't thinking about formalities then. I knew I ought to get back home quickly. Anyhow, he was so respectful I knew he was all right." "Hmm! There are respectful crooks sometimes! But never mind; go on.

I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Join a Highland regiment, me boy. The kilt is an unrivalled garment for fornication and diarrhoea.

So his ego was the size of Uranus—and, no, the pun is not unintentional.