#authors

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#artists #authors #bind #book #books

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#authors #competition #dead #envy #living

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ↗

— Athenaeus

#best #burn #drink #friends #old

Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins! ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fma #fullmetal-alchemist #humor #manga #humor

All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius. ↗

— P.D. James

#romance-novels #writing #age

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#authorship #truth #writing #art

i want to bleed ink and shit prose. ↗

— Jonathan Culver

#authors #writing #art

Unfortunately, these days, 'literary' writing seems to have become synonymous with 'showy' writing, writing that is beautiful but doesn't tell a story. This is a misguided trend. If today's 'literary' writers would look back only one or two hundred years at real literary writers like Dostoyevsky, Poe, Conrad, Melville, they would find momentous stories--not just pretty writing--at the core of almost all of their great works. ↗

— Noah Lukeman

#literary-writing #pretty-writing #beauty

I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child. ↗

— Leo Lionni

#change

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#design