Authors Quotes

If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism. If you steal from two it’s research.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.

I’m a commercial writer, not an “author.” Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

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.

Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge – that is to say, a thinking person – can possibly have.

That a germ of Michel (the immoralist) exists in me goes without saying. How many buds we bear in us… that will never blossom save in our books! They are ‘dormant eyes’ as the botanists call them. But if intentionally you suppress all of them “but one”, how it grows at once! How it enlarges, […]