Authors Exercise Quotes

#1. Creativity is divine.

A.D. Posey

#2. I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.

Lydia Davis

#3. In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

James Boswell

#4. I started watching some 'Doctor Who' recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime - I'm pathetic.

Miranda Hart

#5. But I'm practically a guy. I mean, except for these fucking hormones that make me want to jump Ty and Justin Timberlake. I don't obsess over things that other girls care about, like clothes, movie stars, hair, painting nails, knitting, or whatever shit they're into.

Miranda Kenneally

#6. Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.

John Mahoney

#7. I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.

Amity Shlaes

#8. I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

Benjamin B. Ferencz

#9. Erasing is exercise for the hands

Elizabeth Rawls

#10. All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

Walter Savage Landor

#11. Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

Jeff Lindsay

#12. Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

Joseph Joubert

#13. Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

Jeff Goldblum

#14. Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

#15. In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.

Georgia Salpa

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Nora Sakavic

#17. For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

Ben Jonson