An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
Nicolas Chamfort – Author
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Voltaire – Author
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
Samuel Johnson – attack, author
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best
Samuel Johnson – Life of an author
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson – Authors, Glory
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
Samuel Johnson – Author
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
John Ruskin – Author
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
