The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Authors Quotes
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 acknowledgement.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity not written.
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
Some judge of authors’ names, not works, and then; Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
Someone told a newly published author that every word in his book could be found in another book. Stunned, the author requested a copy of that other book. The man sent him a dictionary.
Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
The most important part of the title is the comma. Because it seems to me that I am that comma. (of his book “East, West”, 1994)
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
