Author Quotes
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When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.
Andrew O'Hagan
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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
George S. Kaufman
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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
Saint Augustine
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My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.
Jane Green
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
John Locke
Nazareth
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The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence.
Elizabeth Crook
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Every production must resemble its author.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
Honore de Balzac
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As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
David Maraniss
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Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
David Guterson
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I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
Enrique Pena Nieto
