Authorship Quotes

“Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.”

“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope—and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing—that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that…' It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so.”

“Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship.”

“No man has all the knowledge on any subject at any time." - Rev., Dr. John Q. Kenzy - I added to Dr, Kenzy's quote as follows: "So then we can all stand to learn more about what we know or what we think we know." C. R. Lord”

“Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.”

“You do not publish your own verses Laelius you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine or else publish your own.”

“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.”

“The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”

“He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.”