Top Author Quotes
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
Louis Leakey
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
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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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere 
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Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Robert Benchley
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Julien Green
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Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
George Fox
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
Sarah Bernhardt
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It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.
Margaret Mahy
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
P. G. Wodehouse
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What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
Brendan Francis
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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
William Goldman
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