An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.
Authors Quotes
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.
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.
Goose, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These (quills) when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an “author,” there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl’s thought and feeling.
“Keep daily notes,” Max Jacobs said, “neat, legible notes with exact dates. If I had kept a diary day by day, today I would have a whole encyclopedia. One word re-creates a whole atmosphere. Oh, how much we lose! What jewels are lost! Be sure to keep a journal of your life. Like this: “June […]
