1.
People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
Jonathan Ive
2.
We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
George Wald
3.
Whatever hath been written shall remain,
Nor be erased nor written o'er again;
The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4.
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
Horace
6.
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year.
[Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]
Horace
7.
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
9.
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
Edwin Percy Whipple
10.
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.
Joseph Addison
11.
If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with
Ayn Rand
12.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
William Cowper
13.
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14.
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
Charles Caleb Colton
15.
All authors to their own defects are blind.
John Dryden
16.
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
Egerton Brydges
17.
Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn.
[Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
Samuel Johnson
18.
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities.
[Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
Horace
19.
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.
Alexander Pope
20.
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.
Adam Rapp
21.
He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.
John Dryden
22.
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
Benjamin Disraeli
23.
But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.
George Pattison
24.
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
Douglas William Jerrold
25.
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
Edwin Percy Whipple
26.
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
27.
And hold up to the sun my little taper.
Lord Byron
28.
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
Charles Caleb Colton
29.
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
Jonathan Swift