Inspirational Authors

Enjoy more words of wisdom in these Quotes about Authors:

"Certain books seem to have been written not for the purpose that we learn something from them but that we know that the author was a knowledgeable person."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."
Joseph Addison

"Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors."
Pablo Picasso

"Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him."
Harry Fosdick

"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes

"An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago."
Samuel Smiles

"Every production must resemble its author."
Miguel de Cervantes

"Making a book is a craft, as is making a clock; it takes more than wit to become an author."
Jean de La Bruyere

"When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man."
Blaise Pascal

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
Winston Churchill

"Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country. Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."
Logan Smith

"The most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new."
William Makepeace Thackeray

"When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson