Author Quotes
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Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.
Alistair Beaton
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
Cesare Pavese
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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
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To the distinguished female author’s left was her husband, probably also distinguished in some way, who had the look of many husbands: eyebrows perpetually raised a little in a defensive mask of polite interest, signifying boredom.
Ben Lerner
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But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
John Ruskin
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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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Who is the coolest author ever? Is it the guy who wrote Fablehaven? If not, what’s the matter with you?
Brandon Mull
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I hear background noise, but I haven't heard any specific legislation or author.
Eric Johnson
