Classic Authors Quotes

#1. Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

Neil Gaiman

#2. I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

William Shatner

#3. ...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.
And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her.

Ettore Scola

#4. I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

James Howard Kunstler

#5. Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love ... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love ...

Swami Muktananda

#6. Petrarch sometimes wrote letters to long-dead authors. He was also a dedicated hunter of classic manuscripts. Once, after discovering some previously unknown works of Cicero, he wrote Cicero the news.

David Markson

#7. Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction.

Janice Daugharty

#8. ...an honest life... is the path of least resistance, the existence that required the least calculation.

Jose Sevilla Ho

#9. Knowledge is worthless when your enemy knows you have it.

Linda Massucci

#10. It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

Jesmyn Ward

#11. Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Julia Cameron

#12. I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

Anne Lamott

#13. The finest poetry was first experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Surely it is not the business of the Church to adapt Christ to men, but to adapt men to Christ.

Michael S. Horton

#15. I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

James Polshek

#16. The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

William Goldman

#17. It's the witching hour once more-
When the Muse comes out to play.
He calls me through that magic door-
Where galaxies of worlds await!

Belle Whittington

#18. You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

William Goldman

#19. Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side ... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

Saint Augustine

#20. But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

Robert Mueller

#21. While every chapter should have goals to further the plot and delve our readers deeper into our world, there must be one goal above all else: Emotional Impact.

A.J. Flowers

#22. They ate and picked sand from their chicken in the pink light.

Cathleen Schine