The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Authors Quotes
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)
Wouldn’t it be awful if I came to Australia and looked you up, and everything you may have imagined about me turned out to be completely disappointing. I always say that if you like a man’s books, take care never to meet him.
The instinctive sense of the dishonor which money-purchase does to art is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can pay his way otherwise refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did, for a while, from a noble pride, and as Count Tolstoy has tried to do, from a noble conscience.
