#author

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ↗

— Voltaire

#dangerous #established #matters #right #which

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

— Aldous Huxley

#either #else #homer #iliad #name

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#authors #crawling #like #now #performance

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#interest #people #product

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with excitement, and, shutting the book even with a kind of reverence as if it were something very precious, a stand-by to return to as long as one lives, one puts it back on the shelf. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love-of-books #reading #life

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#aristotle #authority #bother #conventional #correct

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries ↗

— Robin Craig Clark

#inspiring #inspiring-authors #inspiring-books #inspiring-quotes #inspiring-words

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#author #i #i am #see #seeing

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#childhood #humor #southern-authors #southern-writers #writing

I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions. ↗

— Erica Goros

#authority #power #respect #age