#author

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#bad #book #comes #good #labor

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research. ↗

— John Burke

#plagiarism #research #steal #two #you

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#find #get #go #his #meaning

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more. ↗

— David Moranis

#author #i #journalist #learned #more

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#characters #chekhov #created #emphasis #less

No authority is higher than reality. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#higher #reality #than

The wisest have the most authority. ↗

— Plato

#most #wisest

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#author #burden #combine #musical #tend

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#afterwards #age #authorities #been #both

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#authorization #bill #civilian #congress #defense