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| 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. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. | Alvin Kernan | 1923-, American Educator |
| In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? | Aubrey Beardsley | 1872-1898, British Illustrator, Writer |
| For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own. | Caroline Lejeune | 1897-1973, British Film Critic |
| I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. | Edith Wharton | 1862-1937, American Author |
| 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. | Eleanor Roosevelt | 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian |
| A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic |
| Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. | J. Swartz | |
| Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
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| The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high AUTHORITY of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Choose an author as you choose a friend. | Sir Christopher Wren | |
| If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. | Thomas Hobbes | 1588-1679, British Philosopher |
| If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! | William M. Thackeray | 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist |
| Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of AUTHORITY. | Thomas H. Huxley | 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator |
| The man whose AUTHORITY is recent is always stern. | Aeschylus | BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist |
| Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the | Albert Pike | 1809-1891, American Lawyer, Masonic Author, Historian |
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| Most authors steal their works, or buy. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots. | Alfred Jarry | 1873-1907, French Playwright, Author |
| Destiny. A tyrant's AUTHORITY for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. | Andre Maurois | 1885-1967, French Writer |
| AUTHORITY without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. | Anne Bradstreet | 1612-1672, British Puritan Poet |
| An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| 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 | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| 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 | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first AUTHORITY under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. | Charles Churchill | 1731-1764, British Poet, Satirist |
| Nothing strengthens AUTHORITY so much as silence. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. | Cole Porter | 1893-1964, American Composer, Lyricist |
| Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. | Cyril Connolly | 1903-1974, British Critic |
| We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their AUTHORITY. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest AUTHORITY. | Decimus (Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet | |
| From where can your AUTHORITY and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things? | Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet | |
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| The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter AUTHORITY to the law. | Denis Diderot | 1713-1784, French Philosopher |
| No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet |
| The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. | Edward Gibbon | 1737-1794, British Historian |
| 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 | 1737-1794, British Historian |
| AUTHORITY is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. AUTHORITY refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. | Erich Fromm | 1900-1980, American Psychologist |
| To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of AUTHORITY. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. | Ernest Renan | 1823-1892, French Writer, Critic, Scholar |
| AUTHORITY is never without hate. | Euripides | BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet |
| No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets its Author face to face. | Everett Harris | |
| Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him. | Florence King | 1936-, American Author, Critic |
| Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
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