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Wherefore seeing we alsoare compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
The author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom.
Lord of all powerand might, who arttheauthorand giver of all good things.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of.
I should like to see the custom introduced of readers who are pleased with a book sending the author some small cash token Not more than a hundred poundsthat would be bad for my characternot less than half a crownthat would do no good to yours.
Le ro" l e d'un auteur est un ro" le assez vain; c'est celui d'un homme qui se croit en e tat de donner des le c° ons au public. Et le ro" le du critique? Il est bien plus vain encore; c'est celui d'un homme qui se croit en e tat de donner des le c° ons a' celui qui se croit en e tat d'en donner au public. Therole oftheauthor isvain enough; it isthat of a person who considers himself able to give lessons to the public. And the role of the critic? It is vainer still; it is that of a person who considers himself able to give lessons to he who considers himself able to give them to the public.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have beenwornshoddy by hisinferiors.It should be a rulethat bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.
The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents worn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms! Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By its Author!
You maydream freely whenyou listen tomusic as well as when you look at painting.When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
Do you know how they are going to decide the Shakespeare^Bacon dispute? Theyare going to dig up Shakespeareand dig up Bacon; theyaregoing toget Tree to recite Hamlet to them. And the one who turns in his coffin will be the author of the play.
Ich sei nicht nur als Autor, sondern auch als Mann betroffen.Und zwar irgendwie schuldhaft. I am moved, not onlyas an author, but as a person. And feel somehow guilty.
I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
He writes as fast as they can read, and he does not write himself down His worst is better than any other person's best His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature. This is indeed to be an author!
A bad book isasmuchof a labour towriteas a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to a literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public.
It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of lifeto be exposed to censure, without hope of praise; to be disgraced by miscarriage or punished for neglect Among these unhappy mortals isthe writer of dictionaries Every other author mayaspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
C'est un me tier que de faire un livre, comme de faire une pendule; il faut plus que de l'esprit pour e" tre auteur. It is as much a trade to write a book as it is to make a watch; it takes more than wit to make an author.
Un auteur ga" te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
Wanting to knowanauthor because you like his books is like wanting to know a goose because you like pa" te .
Every author's fairy godmother should provide him not only with a pen but also with a blue pencil.
If the poem can be improved by its author's explanations, it should never have been published.
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Allm a« hlich hat sich mir herausgestellt, was jede groÞe Philosophie bisher war: n a« mlich das Selbstbekenntnis ihres Urhebers und eineArt ungewollter und unvermerkter me moires. It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy has hitherto been: a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntaryand unconscious memoir.
Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
Six Characters in Search of an Author.
O! would the Sons of Men once think their Eyes And Reason giv'n them but to study Flies? See Nature in some partial narrow shape, And let the Author of the Whole escape.
Literature is not an abstract science, to which exact definitions can be applied.It is an Art rather, the success of which depends on personal persuasiveness, on the author's skill to give as on ours to receive.
Car loin de le [le lecteur] ne gliger, l'auteur aujourd'hui proclame l'absolu besoin qu'il a de son concours actif, conscient, cre ateur. Ce qu'il lui demande, ce n'est plus de recevoir tout fait un monde acheve , plein, clos sur lui- me" me, c'est au contraire de participer a' une cre ation, d'inventer a' son tour l'½uvreet le mondeet d'apprendre ainsi a' inventer sa propre vie. Far from neglecting him [the reader], the author today proclaims the absolute necessity of the reader's active, conscious and creative assistance.What he demands of the reader is no longer to receive a ready-made world, complete, full, closed in upon itself.On the contrary, the reader isasked toparticipateinthe creation, toinvent for himself aworkand the worldand tounderstand thus how to invent his own life.
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
What really knocksme out isa book that, whenyou'reall done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.
Hunting the author, painter and musician is a traditional and popular sport. In this country poet-baiting at an early stage assumed the place of bull-baiting.
What I like in a good author isnot what hesays, but what he whispers.
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writeswith a misty profundity, heis talking nonsense.
Books of poetry by young writersareusually promissory notes that are never met. Now and then, however, one comes across a volume that is so far above the average that one can hardly resist the fascinating temptation of recklessly prophesying a fine future for its author. Such a book Mr Yeats's Wanderings of Oisin certainly is. Here we find nobility of treatment and nobility of subject- matter, delicacy of poetic instinct and richness of imaginative resource.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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