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If you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism. If you copy from two, it’s research (Author Quotes)
Nothing is a greater obstacle to our progress in knowledge, then a bad performance of a celebrated author; because, before we instruct we must begin with undeceiving (Author Quotes)
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own (Author Quotes)
I’m not an author, I’m a writer, that’s all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney (Author Quotes)
Here lies the author of this phrase: The itch for disputing is the sore of churches. Seek his name elsewhere (Author Quotes)
No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher’s expression of interest does to a new author! (Author Quotes)
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition (Author Quotes)
I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children (Author Quotes)
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author (Author Quotes)
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat (Author Quotes)
Countless generations of students and general readers have been intrigued by this deeply human book, which half reveals and half conceals the fascinating yet enigmatic personality of its author (Author Quotes)
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed (Author Quotes)
Mad, bad, or just prepared to go where others fear to tread? the most controversial author and speaker in the world (Author Quotes)
You are the author of your life, the inventor of your future, the agent of your intentions (Author Quotes)
When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man (Author Quotes)
When we see a natural style, we are quite surprised and delighted, for we expected to see an author and we find a man (Author Quotes)
In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born (Author Quotes)
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide (Author Quotes)
An old author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years (Author Quotes)
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author (Author Quotes)
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 (Author Quotes)
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him (Author Quotes)
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors (Author Quotes)
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 (Author Quotes)
When you take stuff from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you take it from many writers, it’s research (Author Quotes)
No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons (Author Quotes)
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant (Author Quotes)
It is quite as much of a trade to make a book as to make a clock. It requires more than mere genius to be an author (Author Quotes)
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground (Author Quotes)
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 (Author Quotes)