Authorship Quotes
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
— Alexander Pope
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
— Douglas William Jerrold
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.
— Christopher Morley
I feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.
— Breece D'J Pancake
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
All authors to their own defects are blind.
— John Dryden
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~
— Irene C. Kassorla
We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
— P. J. O'Rourke
She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.
— E. M. Forster
If have got my spindle and my distaff readymy pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax. — J.G. Holland
Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.
— Matthew Gregory Lewis
Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry
— J.R. Moehringer
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second.
— R.P. Falconer
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[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.
— Samuel Beckett
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
— August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.
— Will Advise
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.
— Nina Jacobson
Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
All stories are the sin of their weaver.
— Miyuki Miyabe
Putting my book down should be the hardest thing my reader has to do that day. Authorship is a merciless business!
— Rachel Aaron
Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.
— Stefanos Livos
There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.
— Dejan Stojanovic
And hold up to the sun my little taper.
— Lord Byron
Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!
— Henry James
Writing to please all tastes is like cooking without seasoning...
— Nanette L. Avery
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.
— Charles Dickens
Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.
— Blaque Diamond
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.
— Michael A. Arnzen
You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.
— Robin Sacredfire
All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.
— Michel De Montaigne
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
— Christopher Hitchens
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
— Egerton Brydges
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book
— Johnny Rich
I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.
— Julian Darius
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year.[Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] — Horace
The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world.
— M.J. Stoddard
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.
— Joseph Addison
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
— Jonathan Ive