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“Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.”
Sarah Bernhardt quotes (The greatest French Actress of the 19th century, and one of the best-known figures in the history of the stage. 1844-1923)
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“The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.”
Edward Gibbon quotes (English Historian, 1737-1794)

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“An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.”
T.S. Eliot quotes (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)

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“Necessity is the author of change”
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“To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.”
Paul Goodman quotes (American poet, 1911-1972)
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“The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.”
Edward Gibbon quotes (English Historian, 1737-1794)

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“The author in his book must be like God in his universe, everywhere present and nowhere visible.”
Gustave Flaubert quotes (French Novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. 1821-1880)
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“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”
Charles Caleb Colton quotes (English sportsman and writer, 1780-1832)

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“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
William Makepeace Thackeray quotes (Indian born English Author and Novelist of 'Vanity Fair', 1811-1863)
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“A bad book is as much labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul”
Aldous Huxley quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
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