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Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

“But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.”

Sports Journey Fool Demand Praise Court Publishers Wondrous Authorship Spawn Bright Days

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“And hold up to the sun my little taper.”

Littles Sun Authorship

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.”

Way Writing Has Beens Language Deals Ears Treats Obliged Authorship Scoundrels Despicable Parcel

Author:Lord Byron

“It's the next phase of authorship of this country's energy future. It's gonna come from the people. It's not gonna be deus ex machina or Obama ex machina, or science ex machina. It's gonna be the people. It's not going to be a wind energy company that comes in and saves the day. It's going to be the people who figure this out.”

People Country Next Energy Company Figures Wind Phases Exes Authorship Wind Energy

Author:Josh Fox

“My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can do to change the molecules and uplift people. They feel something when we play. I can't take authorship for that. I can take that I'm in service.”

People Feels I Can Play Sound Can Do Breathe Uplifting Mysticism Seekers Molecules Authorship

Author:Charles Lloyd

“The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If there might be space aliens, we can assume there are." "If the idea of Atlantis is not impossible, we can take it for granted." "If the traditional view of gospel authorship cannot be definitievely debunked, we can go right on assuming it's truth." No, you can't.”

Ifs Believe Ideas Might Age Space Views Impossible Possibility Assuming Mere Conservative Traditional Tendencies Aliens Granted Leap New Age Authorship Notorious Atlantis Space Aliens

Author:Robert M. Price

“In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.”

Facts Masters Patient Photographer Photograph Mediums Crafts Speculation Accumulation Visionaries Authorship

Author:Peter C Bunnell

“I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera, a military photographer, or Mike Light really doesn't matter. What matters is the context of the final photograph and the meaning it generates within that context.”

Matter Light Care Military Cameras Finals Photographer Photograph What Matters Mike Astronaut Robotics Authorship

Author:Michael Light

“But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.”

Might Reader Approach Scholar Authorship Climax

Author:George Pattison

“Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits one from a particular author, whether it's Kierkegaard, Heidegger, or whoever. Nevertheless, it does seem to me that even the more religious parts of the authorship can offer significant insights into the meaning of the human condition to those who can't then say that, e.g., they believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and their personal Saviour.”

“I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.”

Thinking My Own Direct Working It Extensions Authorship

Author:Adam Rapp

“First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.”

Thinking Firsts Facts Wanted Photograph Appropriate Pairs Invitations Presenting Authorship

Author:Sam Abell

“I think Republicans now are recognizing that [Obamacare cancellation] may not be what the American people, including even [Donald] Trump voters, are looking for. And my hope is that the president-elect, members of Congress from both parties look at, "Where have we objectively made progress, where things are working better?" Don't undo things just because I did them. I don't have pride of authorship.”

People Thinking Looks May Made President Party Progress Pride Trump Republican Members Including Congress Voters Recognizing Obamacare Authorship Cancellation

Author:Barack Obama

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

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Book:Not That it Matters

Source: Not That it Matters

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”

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Author:Moliere

“The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.”

Writing Trade Violent Obsession Authorship Indestructible

Author:George Sand

“I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.”

I Can Connections Accounts Productions Former Print Topics Confined Authorship Intrusion

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.”

Atheism Products Positive Atheism Editing Authorship

Author:George Wald

“A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.”

Two Age Talent Months Thirds Assuming Candidates Leisure Two Months Authorship Marlowe

Author:Bill Bryson

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”

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Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“If God is the author of life, there must be a script.”

Ifs Life God Religious Scripts Creator Authorship

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.”

Writing Poetry Fame Prose Temples Verses Authorship Granite Rubble

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.”

Science Choices Design Products Evolution Offers Editing Selection Authorship

Author:George Wald

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

Writing Mind Teacher Tongue Pens Authorship

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.”

Humans Character Nature Human Nature Consistent Authorship Inconsistency

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”

Giving Doe Literature Reader Comeback Authorship

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.”

Men Writing Three Literature Honest Difficulty Sensible Publishing Publish Honest Man Authorship Successful Writing

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.”

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Author:Jeanne Gang

“It takes courage to be the author of your life.”

Life Courage Inspirational Life Bravery Authorship Consultants

Book:The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success

Source: The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success

“People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.”

People Interest Design Products Authorship

Author:Jonathan Ive

“My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.”

Ifs Want Use Teaching Claims Permission Consent Copyright Authorship

Book:The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti

Source: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti

“Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.”

Love Giving Running Dark Brain Darkness Sun Research Give Me Commentators Doubtful Authorship Vex

Book:The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

“And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.”

People Different Play Enjoy Levels Authorship Different Levels

Author:Mark Rylance

“Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.”

Doe Inspiration Sun Sky Wind Creatures Office Trade Shining Authorship

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.”

Firsts Play Lasts Form Language Process Originals Favors Analysis Receiving Aggression Passive Imitation Translations Authorship Havoc

Author:Lawrence Venuti

“All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and authorship is lost. That's why you're seeing superstars like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT CLUB and Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA. They're desperately searching for people writing and directing off-formula movies.”

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Author:Paul Schrader

“The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.”

Giving Numbers Masters Circumstances Please Advantage Originals Valuable Copies Authorship

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.”

Writing Ego Fantastic Indulgence Authorship

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with”

Ifs Giving Agree Credit Disagree Authorship Objectivism

Author:Ayn Rand

“I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.”

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Author:David Knopfler

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