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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
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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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
John M. Ford 
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No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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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Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
Ken Hill
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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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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
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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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