Authorship Quotes

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. - Unknown

When Neil would play and sing, it changed his relationship to the song. One feels more of a sense of authorship. By playing guitar, Neil controls the rhythm and feel of the songs. It also changes the way he sings them, and it becomes a more pure musical act. - Rick Rubin

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. - George Wald

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. - Charles Caleb Colton

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. - George Sand

The reasons we were convinced of Vivaldi's authorship are many and varied. Essentially, the new work displays all the peculiarities of Vivaldi's general style, peculiarities that are very familiar to musicians, musicologists and music lovers. - Janice Stockigt

The basic idea of copyright law is to encourage authorship. To encourage people to invest the necessary resources to develop books and music and art. If you are downloading for free what everyone else is paying for, you are probably violating the law, which means you are violating the honor code. - Thomas Lee

That's a device. I like to think about it as a little bit of a mystery ... the director describes it as a statement of authorship. It's kind of a sophisticated concept, but I like to think of it almost as my character looking back intellectually, but not at an advanced age. - Steve Martin

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it. - Mark Rylance