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There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature. -- Eliza Haywood
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared, the later teaching man's relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future. -- James Dwight Dana
All great authors are seers. -- George Henry Lewes
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community. -- Aeschines
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. -- John Farrar
Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance. -- Mary Russell Mitford
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. -- Thomas Aquinas
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow. -- Gary Player
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. -- Andre Gide
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 Jacobson
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law. -- Stephen Vizinczey
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there. -- Michael Leunig
The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons. -- Henry Highland Garnet
You should not put too much trust in any unproved conjecture, even if it has been propounded by a great authority, even if it has been propounded by yourself. You should try to prove it or disprove it ... -- George Polya
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction. -- Orhan Pamuk
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously. -- Michel de Montaigne
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. -- Ross Perot
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. -- Joseph Addison
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. -- Andre Maurois
Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author. -- Josiah Bartlett
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. -- Benjamin Franklin
Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. -- Samuel Smiles
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. -- Thomas Mann
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author. -- Anish Kapoor
I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. -- Joseph Conrad
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. -- John Grisham
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece. -- Rose Kennedy
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. -- Charles Caleb Colton

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