Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Authors Quotes
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
An author departs, he does not die.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55.
When the Germans made their rapid advance through Belgium in the early summer of 1940, they captured, among other things, Mr. P. G. Wodehouse, who had been living throughout the early part of the war in his villa at Le Touquet, and seems not to have realised until the last moment that he was in […]
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
It is advantageous to an authour, that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.
When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man.
