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Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'dBy your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shadeBelow the garden...His mind's eye sees them quoted on the bottom third of a right-hand page in a (possibly) olive-bound book he read at least five years ago. When he does find them, it will be a great nuisance if no clue is given to their authorship. Edward Gorey
She did not think it any coincidence that ideas denigrating literary authorship had taken center stage simultaneously with the emergence of formerly silent voices for whom the act of writing, and publishing, had the deepest and most delicious possible meaning, simultaneously with the emergence of an audience for whom the act of thinking and writing was an act of skeptical anger, sometimes a transitional act to violence. Jane Smiley
I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. Bill Bryson
The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it from the fiber of your own will. From somewhere, you get it. You begin Barbara Kingsolver
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago. Asa Gray
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. Charles Caleb Colton
George Wald quote: "We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. George Wald
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
George Sand quote: "The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible..."
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. George Sand
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. David Knopfler
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it. Mark Rylance
And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels. Mark Rylance
Jonathan Ive quote: "People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship."
People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship. Jonathan Ive

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