Good Authors Quotes

• Para producir un libro poderoso, debes elegir un tema poderoso.

  Herman Melville

  Libro, Escritura, Pulgas

  Moby Dick cap. 104 (1851)

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• Una buena novela nos dice la verdad sobre su héroe; pero una mala novela nos dice la verdad sobre su autor.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Libro, Lectura, Héroe

  1905 Herejes, cap. 15.

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• Bájalo. Arriésgate. Puede ser malo, pero es la única forma de hacer algo realmente bueno.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirar, Escribir, Mayo

  "A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner".

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• El camino al infierno está empedrado de buenas intenciones.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sabiduría, Escritura, Procrastinación

  Declaración del 14 de abril de 1775. "Vida de Samuel Johnson". Libro de James Boswell. Volumen II, 1791.

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• Si dices la verdad, ¡no necesitas buena memoria!

  Mark Twain

  Verdad, honestidad, recuerdos

  Mark Twain Clásicos HD (2015). "Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn: por Mark Twain (Ilustrado y no resumido)", p.2, Clásicos HD.

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• Lo que me gusta de un buen autor no es lo que dice, sino lo que susurra.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspiración, Libro, Escritura

  All Trivia (1933) "Afterthoughts" pt. 5

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• The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

  Joseph Conrad

  Adventure, Joy, Soul

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences”, p.109, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Teaching, Other Cultures, Doe

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• Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

  Julien Green

  Cristiano, Libro, Escritura

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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• I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.172, Graphic Arts Books

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• A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Simple, Expression

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• There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

  Jeanne Calment

  Escasez

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Voice, Style, Firsts

  "Kenzaburo Oe, The Art of Fiction No. 195". Interviewed with Sarah Fay, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 2007.

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• You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Play, Reason, Knows

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• For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

  John Milton

  Kind, Plagiarism, Borrowing

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• People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  People, Next, Election

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• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

  Cole Porter

  Canción, Inspiración, Escritura

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• There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Pity, Converses

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• También los buenos autores, que antes conocían palabras mejores, ahora sólo usan palabras de cuatro letras escribiendo prosa... todo vale.

  Cole Porter

  Divertido, Cambio, Humor

  "Anything Goes" (canción) (1934)

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• I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a really good author. I feel like my job as a filmmaker is to eff the ineffable, to take feelings that only poets could describe with words and try to project them on the screen for viewers to feel. I don't think I've succeeded once but in the act of trying I've come up with all these other results which sometimes intrigue me.

  Guy Maddin

  Jobs, Thinking, Inspire

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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