The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
Carter G. Woodson

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
Gustave Flaubert

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
John Locke

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
Joseph Lewis

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
Max Frisch

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Brooks Adams

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry B. Adams

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.
Robert Fortune

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Thornton Wilder

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
Henry Miller

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
Robert Duvall

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
John M. Ford

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
Vladimir Nabokov

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Isaac Disraeli

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
Ken Hill

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
Scott Turow

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Andre Maurois