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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Author He Love Must Nothing Truth

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With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

~Art Spiegelman

Topics: Any Apply Author Enough Many Measure Preconceptions Salt Take Taking Too Trust Work Worth You

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Choose an author as you choose a friend.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Author Choose Friend You

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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Author Certainly Diverse Find Game Life Literary Minor Most Pastime

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When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.

~Arthur Phillips

Topics: Author Bears Character Fun Invitation Just Name Same Some

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Author Effect Fault Gives Hardly He Him Intelligible Just Makes Opposite Pedantic Reprehensible Same Same Time Says Speak Speaks Time Write Writes

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The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

~Arthur Smith

Topics: Author Awe Before Book Garbage May More Stand Weighs

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I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

~Asa Larsson

Topics: Allowed Annoying Author Bad Becoming Big Book Books Both Child Crime Drew Father Forbid Great Great Book He Him Librarian Like Literature Lover Me Nancy Often Pleasing Read Reader Say Way

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Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

~Ashwin Sanghi

Topics: About Activity Alone Angle Author Best Books Business Down Elevated Intensely Pen Personal Stature Terms Think Thoughts Writing You Your I Can

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Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.

~Ashwin Sanghi

Topics: Author Become Choose Feeling Full-Time Job Like Luxury Me Might Professional Quit Start Therapy Typical Unlike Work Write Writing

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