235 Authors Quotes for You to Enjoy

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Francis Bacon

Best Trust Age Old Wine Old Friends Drink Read Friends Authors Wood Burn Old Wine Appears Things Four

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. Walt Whitman

Best People Genius States Churches Colleges Inventors Most Executives Always Nor Ambassador Authors Common Common People Newspapers Even United United States

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored. Edwin Louis Cole

God Will Finish Obligated He Authors

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. Mickey Spillane

History Down Out Names Smoke Coming Authors Want Chimney Keep

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. Elizabeth I

Death War Enemies Ought States Dangers Put Authors Monarchs Sworn

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. Benjamin Franklin

Life First Beginning Faults Correcting Objection Only Advantage Over Edition Go End Same Authors Should Second

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. George Mikes

All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept. H. P. Lovecraft

Good Will Reading Guide Must Cases More Never Attempts Learner Polish Judicious Cease Effective Begin Precept Than Authors Any Hold Literary Gaining Usage Many Found Amount Phase

Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners. M. J. Rose

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. Paul Weller

Work Great Like Dead Leave Authors Wanna Body Painters

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing. Sophie Kinsella

Writing Schizophrenic Living Our Books Our Lives Solitary Solitary Confinement Some Lead Most Authors Confinement Little Breathing Lives Extent

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. Salman Rushdie

Creation Books Entirely Rational Authors Act Choose Conscious

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements. Aberjhani

World More Poets Names Most Known Because Cultural Celebrated Authors Artists Arts Movements African-American Specific Among Association

Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word. Alice McDermott

Life Interior Word Reading Matters State Meet Books Those Inside About Clean Written Written Word Know Talk Read Because Always Sheltered Timeless Wonder Authors Where Place Little Room Us Transporting Who Publishing

I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever. Amity Shlaes

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved. Andre Aciman

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book. Andy Dunn

Book Own Put Particularly Am Cover Authors Themselves Who Wary

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. Anita Diament

Book November Country Community Books Month All-Around Advance Invite Around Sell Authors Where Centers Holidays Jewish Jewish Community

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own. Ashwin Sanghi

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