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Cole Porter quote: "Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use..."
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. Cole Porter
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also..."
A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends Friedrich Nietzsche
Logan Pearsall Smith quote: "What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he..."
What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers. Logan Pearsall Smith
Philip Larkin quote: "There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse..."
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! Philip Larkin
Julien Green quote: "Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find..."
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. Julien Green
Tatyana Tolstaya quote: "People know that I am a very good author. But they would..."
People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election. Tatyana Tolstaya
Logan P. Smith quote: "What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he..."
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. Logan P. Smith
Jeanne Calment quote: "There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them."
There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them. Jeanne Calment
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me. Rupert Everett
The great writers have always been great readers, but that does not mean that they read all the books that, in their day, were listed as the indispensable ones. In many cases, they read fewer books than are now required in most of our colleges, but what they did read, they read well. Because they had mastered these books, they became peers with their authors. They were entitled to become authorities in their own right. In the natural course of events, a good student frequently becomes a... Mortimer Adler
There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil and how to be bad. The Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments, and no team of authors to write his biography. His case has gone completely by default. We know nothing about him but a lot of fairy stories from our parents and schoolmasters. He has no book from which we can learn the nature of evil in all its forms, with parables about evil people, proverbs about evil... Ian Fleming
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps,... Alexis de Tocqueville
This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself - albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony - the clear and explicit interpretation of it. Thomas Mann is an example... Susan Sontag
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover. Erica Jong
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel. Ethan A. Hitchcock

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