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 […]
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgement.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity not written.
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
Some judge of authors’ names, not works, and then; Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
Someone told a newly published author that every word in his book could be found in another book. Stunned, the author requested a copy of that other book. The man sent him a dictionary.
Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
The most important part of the title is the comma. Because it seems to me that I am that comma. (of his book “East, West”, 1994)
