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An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author (Author Quotes)
Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from (Author Quotes)
The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary (Author Quotes)
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself (Author Quotes)
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want (Author Quotes)
Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault? (Author Quotes)
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase my mistakes (Author Quotes)
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text (Author Quotes)
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death (Author Quotes)
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers (Author Quotes)
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius (Author Quotes)
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print (Author Quotes)
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter (Author Quotes)
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art (Author Quotes)
I’m not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn’t a mayor (Author Quotes)
Whenever you’re down on your luck, and when things aren’t going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story. You can write it any way you like, with anyone you choose. And it can be a beautiful story or a sad and tragic one. You get to pick (Author Quotes)
Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house (Author Quotes)
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself (Author Quotes)
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end (Author Quotes)
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists (Author Quotes)
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours (Author Quotes)
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic (Author Quotes)
The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation (Author Quotes)
The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book (Author Quotes)
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? (Author Quotes)
Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses... For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another (Author Quotes)
We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also (Author Quotes)
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him (Author Quotes)
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque (Author Quotes)
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide (Author Quotes)