Quotes of: Author Keyword

She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer." Mary Lou Quinlan, author

Mary Lou Quinlan

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

Neil Gaiman

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

Frederick Forsyth

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Michel Foucault

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

Paul Weller

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

George Dennison Prentice

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

Jose Bergamin

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

Judy Holliday

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

Nigella Lawson

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

Richard K. Morgan

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

John Piper

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

Arthur Miller

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Samuel Butler

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

Anthony Trollope

Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny" Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard

Hank Quense

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

Jeff Bezos

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

John Boyne

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Jesus Christ

Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.

Ella J. Fraser