Quotes 61 till 80 of 102.
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
As quoted in Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie, by Craig R. Whitney, in The New York Times (23 May 1989), p. C18 -
Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?
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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author.
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
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The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
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The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Speach Glasgow 19 November 1870 -
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
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The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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