Quotes and Sayings about Authorship

"I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago."
- Asa Gray
(Related: Time, Belief, Authorship, First, Now, Years)

"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."
- David Knopfler
(Related: Authorship, College, Gravity, Punishment)

"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."
- Mark Rylance
(Related: People, Actors, Authorship, Question)

"And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels."
- Mark Rylance
(Related: People, Authorship, Question)

"The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession."
- George Sand
(Related: Authorship, Obsession, Trade)

"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."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Authorship, Connection, Production, Will)

"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
- George Wald
(Related: Authorship)