Quotes 21 till 40 of 102.
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As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
A Tale of Two Continents (1997) p. xv -
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Every man is the author of his own life.
Moon Palace (2010) 15 -
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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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.
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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.
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.
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I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
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I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author of himself and knew no other kin.
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