#authors

The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund. ↗

— Ed Royce

#appropriate #authors #bailed #bank #business

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fearless #inspirational-authors #writers #inspirational

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. ↗

— John Green

#collaboration #inspirational #reading #writing #writing-quotes

For poetry and I are one To separate is to decapitate For my poetry is forever. ↗

— Kerry D. Brackett

#african-american-authors #inspirational #poetry #inspirational

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#authors #behind #books #course #enjoyed

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. ↗

— George Mikes

#conversation #course #educated people #england #greek

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. ↗

— Cole Porter

#authors #better #four-letter #goes #good

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. ↗

— Jane Porter

#authors #chief #country #dr #glory

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #authors #book #changes #faithful

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ↗

— Richard Russo

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