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Quotations
On Authors
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- Choose
an
author as you choose
a friend.—Earl of Roscommon.
- The
motives and purposes of
authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of
youth,
we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin
horn to call them home, like laborers from the field, at dinner-time,
and
they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.—Longfellow.
- It is
a
doubt whether mankind
are most indebted to those who, like Bacon and Butler, dig the gold
from
the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp
it,
fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.—Colton.
- Twenty
to
one offend more in
writing too much than too little.—Roger Ascham.
- He who
proposes to be an author
should first be a student.—Dryden.
- Nothing
is
so beneficial to
a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands
constitutionally
at the freezing-point.—Douglas Jerrold.
An author!
'Tis a
venerable name!
How few
deserve it, and
what numbers claim!
Unblest
with sense above
their peers refin'd,
Who shall
stand up, dictators
to mankind?
Nay, who
dare shine,
if not in virtue's cause?
That sole
proprietor
of just applause.
—Young.
- No
fathers
or mothers think
their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with
respect
to the offspring of the mind.—Cervantes.
- There
are
three difficulties
in authorship—to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest
men
to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.—Colton.
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- Never
write on a subject without
having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till
you have thought yourself hungry on it.—Richter.
How
many great ones
may remember'd be,
Which in
their days most
famously did flourish,
Of whom no
word we hear,
nor sign now see,
But as
things wip'd out
with a sponge do perish,
Because the
living cared
not to cherish
No gentle
wits, through
pride or covetize,
Which might
their names
for ever memorize!
—Spenser.
- The
two
most engaging powers
of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things
new.—Thackeray.
- To
write
well is to think well,
to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect,
soul
and taste.—Buffon.
- Young
authors give their brains
much exercise and little food.—Joubert.
- Brief
History of a Successful
Author: From ink-pots to flesh-pots —R.R.Kirk.
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