Quotes about Authorship
History is a story written by the finger of God.
— CS Lewis
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
— Cicero
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.
— Martin Luther
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
— William Faulkner
Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.
— Edith Wharton
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
— Aldous Huxley
Massachusetts, whose constitution, as to this article, seems to have been the original from which the convention have copied.
— Alexander Hamilton
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
— William Wordsworth
Dawn is purely a work of fiction, but I wrote it to look at myself in a new way. Obviously I did not live this tale, but I was implicated in its ethical dilemma from the moment that I assumed my character's place.
— Elie Wiesel
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
— Ann Voskamp
Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.
— LM Montgomery