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“Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself.” Voltaire, Candide
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee? whom follow?” John Milton, Paradise Lost

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