Author Quotes
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
Simon Toyne
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It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."
Soren Kierkegaard
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The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
Evan Osnos
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To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.
Bart Ehrman
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It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.
Nick Petrie
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I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.
Sarah Dessen
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas Carlyle
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I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
Marcel Proust
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I hear background noise, but I haven't heard any specific legislation or author.
Eric Johnson
