Quotes with co-author

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  • Guy Debord Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • W. M. Thackeray If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • W. M. Thackeray If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Wilson Mizner If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism. If you copy from two, it's research.
    Alva Johnston - The Legendary Mizners (1953)
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Wilson Mizner If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Cat Stevens In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Ben Mezrich In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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  • Joseph De Maistre In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • John Ruskin It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ben Shapiro Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Bryce Courtenay My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jean Paul No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Pablo Picasso Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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