Authors Quotes

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

All great authors are seers.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.