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I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up. - Joseph Addison It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from. - Francis Bacon Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity. - Honore de Balzac I am neither a man nor a woman but an author. - Charlotte Bronte (used pseudonym Currer Bell), in a letter to William Smith Williams If you liked a book, don't meet the author. - Raymond Chandler Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. - Robertson Davies Choose an author as you choose a friend. - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. - Ernest Hemingway A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") An author departs, he does not die. - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik) People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I), in "The Coriscan," edited by R.M. Johnston Hemingway was a jerk. - Harold Robbins (originally Francis Kane) Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, in Hans Zinsser's "As I Remember Him," p. 8 Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. - Logan Pearsall Smith I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf (nee Stephen) (Adeline Virginia Woolf)
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