quotes about Authorship
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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.
-- Alexander Pope -
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
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A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
-- George Wald -
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.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
-- Horace -
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Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]
-- Horace -
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.]
-- Horace -
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
-- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby -
People’s interest is in the product, not in its authorship,
-- Jonathan Ive -
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Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.
-- Joseph Addison -
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.
-- Nina JacobsonSource : "'Hunger Games' Producer Nina Jacobson on Movie Backstory; Firing from Disney (Q&A)". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 15, 2012.
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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.
-- George Pattison -
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
-- Egerton BrydgesSource : Sir Egerton Brydges (1824). “Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron”, p.340
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