Top Author Quotes
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen King
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
Louis Leakey
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal
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
Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen King 
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The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
Louis Leakey
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal
81% of people like this quote
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
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But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author.
Mark Rylance
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
John Locke
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry B. Adams
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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle
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I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
Harriet Martineau
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