Best author Quotes

“The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.”

“For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries—to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.”

“What is a good man if not one who does not believe in himself to the exclusion of others? ... He was asked to bear what cannot be borne--what should not be borne. I hope never to be so tested, for I have it on the best authority that I will not bear it.”

“In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.”

“Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.”