Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old authors quotes, authors sayings, and authors proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.Mortimer Adler
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There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.Henry David Thoreau
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Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.Laurence J. Peter
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Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.Vachel Lindsay
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.Samuel Johnson
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The great authors share their souls with us — literally.Ursula K. Le Guin
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All great authors are seers.George Henry Lewes
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.Alexander Pope
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There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.Ruskin Bond
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Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.Henry Williamson
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.Malcolm Cowley
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.John Green
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As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant. David Morrell
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Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.Richard Denney
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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.Walter Savage Landor
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold.Alexander Pope
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.Edward Albee
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The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.Donna Tartt
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.Robertson Davies
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Authors in general don't have a lot of money, and lawsuits are expensive.James D. Macdonald
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Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.Edward Coke
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The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.Maxim Gorky
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Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.Lauren Hutton
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.Joseph Joubert
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Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
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All authors to their own defects are blind.John Dryden
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View other authors as your allies rather than your competition.Shannon Love
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After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.Ronald Fisher
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.Cole Porter
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The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.Louis Aragon
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.Samuel Johnson
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Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it.Nella Larsen
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Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.Benjamin Disraeli
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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.Friedrich Nietzsche
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Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.P. D. James
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It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.Joseph Addison
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The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.Isaac Newton
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Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.Walter Moers
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Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.John Farrar
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We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.Giacomo Casanova
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Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.Michael Dirda
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Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.Ethel Brilliana Tweedie
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.Félix José Palma
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Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.Paul Eldridge
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.Samuel Johnson
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.Bergen Evans