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All great authors are seers. -- George Henry Lewes
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. -- Mortimer Adler
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
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions. -- Andre Maurois
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
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say. -- Hannah Arendt
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself. -- Mark Twain
We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works of great authors with attention, they have observed the arrangement of their matter, or the grace of their expression -- Samuel Johnson
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. -- Andre Maurois
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. -- Paul Weller
I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world. -- Mo Yan
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. -- Andre Gide
When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories. -- Kevin Henkes
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 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've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. -- Manuel Puig
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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
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation. -- Lawrence Clark Powell
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying. -- Lev Grossman
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. -- J. D. Hayworth
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
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. -- Robert Benchley
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? -- Gao Xingjian
When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life. -- Lori Wilde
For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books. -- Jack Canfield
The authors of great evils know best how to remove them. -- Plutarch
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. -- Saint Augustine
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. -- Milan Kundera
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. -- Michel de Montaigne
Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. -- Chuck Miceli
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. -- William Feather
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. -- Benjamin Franklin
Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers. -- Vantile Whitfield

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