| Author |
Quotes |
| Alan Bennett | Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. |
| Amanda Cross | That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. |
| Anonymous | Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. |
| Anonymous | To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. |
| Aristophanes | By words the mind is winged. |
| Arnold Bennett | Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. |
| Austin Phelps | Wear the old coat and buy the new book. |
| Bible | The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold. |
| Anonymous | Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. |
| Anonymous | To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. |
| Bill Cartwright | I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored. |
| Burt Bacharach | A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. |
| Cao Xueqin | I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself! |
| Catherine Drinker Bowen | Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them. |
| Charles Churchill | Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. |
| Charles Edwin Carruthers | In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay. |
| Cliff Fadiman | I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. |
| Crand Briton | Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. |
| Dawn Adams | Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. |
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