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 […]
Authors Quotes
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
It is advantageous to an authour, that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.
When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man.
It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings… Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose […]
The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
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.
