Authorship Quotes: top 65 famous quotes about Authorship

Authorship Quotes & Sayings

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That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is. — Lang Leav

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

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. — George Sand

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

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. — George Wald

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 ready
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax. — J.G. Holland

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. — William Cowper

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question ... at completely different levels. — Mark Rylance

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

To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? — W.G. Sebald

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

[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

I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. — Mary Shelley

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

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student. — John Dryden

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer ... is one of those fantasies that surround authorship. — Vera Brittain

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

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship. — Adam Rapp

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

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth. — Wole Soyinka

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism. — Benjamin Disraeli

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. — Stephen King

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

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused. — SARK

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