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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. - Joyce Brothers Quotes
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. - Anthony Trollope Quotes
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. - John Updike Quotes
The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced. - Robert Fortune Quotes
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works. - Voltaire Quotes
We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the \"writing style\" of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed. - David Crane Quotes
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca Quotes
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say youre cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
The author is aware that the essence of the Christian faith is perfectly independent of his criticism. The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. - David Friedrich Strauss Quotes
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. - Thomas Paine Quotes
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. - Jeanne Moreau Quotes
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print. - William Goldman Quotes
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. - Diane Johnson Quotes
Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it. - Joseph Smith Jr Quotes
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. Id pick out an author and I would read all their books. - Tom T Hall Quotes
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. - James Schuyler Quotes
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. - Edward Gibbon Quotes
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. - Henry Miller Quotes
In this summary, it shows that that author just before he was discharged from the Army in Munich, he and a comrade demanded to go back to Dallas. - John Sherman Cooper Quotes
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. - Robert Benchley Quotes
I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text. - Richard Curtis Quotes
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads. - Cornelia Funke Quotes
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. - Mary Wortley Quotes
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesnt understand the horse dealers language. - Max Frisch Quotes
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then youre a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuffs worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I dont give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. - Mel Torme Quotes
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. - Harriet Martineau Quotes
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author thats better than an absent one is a dead one. - George S Kaufman Quotes
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