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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself  (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) Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things  (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) Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being  (Author Quotes) I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase my mistakes  (Author Quotes) Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially  (Author Quotes) Without a humble imitation of the divine author of our blessed religion we can never hope to be a happy nation  (Author Quotes) The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text  (Author Quotes) I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of  (Author Quotes) In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out  (Author Quotes) The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen  (Author Quotes) Few have been in my secret while I was compiling these narratives, nor is it probable that they will ever become public during the life of their author  (Author Quotes) I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him  (Author Quotes) In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them  (Author Quotes) In America, the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them  (Author Quotes) You think much too well of me as a man. No author can be as moral as his works, as no preacher is as pious as his sermons  (Author Quotes) Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, says a Chinese author, leads the flock to fly and follow  (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) He that is the author of war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death  (Author Quotes) It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all  (Author Quotes) Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage  (Author Quotes) In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small)  (Author Quotes) For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe  (Author Quotes) When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him  (Author Quotes) A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius  (Author Quotes) It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense  (Author Quotes) If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man  (Author Quotes) O woman! Woman! Thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out  (Author Quotes)
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