Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself. I like only that which serves my purpose.
Authors Quotes
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice and just as the touch on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice […]
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
An author departs, he does not die.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55.
When the Germans made their rapid advance through Belgium in the early summer of 1940, they captured, among other things, Mr. P. G. Wodehouse, who had been living throughout the early part of the war in his villa at Le Touquet, and seems not to have realised until the last moment that he was in […]
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
