| "Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author." »Martin Luther |
| "What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good." »Seneca |
| "Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come." »Montesquieu |
| "Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author" »Philip G. Hamerton |
| "If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." »Hebrews 122 Bible |
| "There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought." »Pierre Bayle |
| "An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations." »Charles de Montesquieu |
| "In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
| "Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. Irony is a cheap shot." »Robert Altman |
| "The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name." »Aldous Huxley |
| "Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading." »Archibald MacLeish |
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