Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
And hold up to the sun my little taper.
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
All authors to their own defects are blind.
It takes courage to be the author of your life.
We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.
People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.