Author Quotes

The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

I’m not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It’s only me.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.

I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.