Quotes of: Author Keyword

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

Vladimir Nabokov

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

Washington Irving

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

William Shatner

Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun.

Wynne Stevens

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

James Goodnight

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

Kevin J. Anderson

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

Nicola Cornick

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Stephen Carter

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

Robert Dallek

He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without being farfetched; frequently sublime, but always natu...

Candide

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the lo...

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

I know what it is to be in need and what it is to have more than enough. I have learnt this secret, so that anywhere, at any time, I am content, whether I am full or hungry, whether I have too much or too little. I have the strength to face all condi...

THE HOLY BIBLE - The Authorized King James Version (Special Illustrated Anniversary Edition) : Best Selling Bible of All Time KJV - With Interactive Table ...

In principle, to be sure, the Reformation idea of the universal priesthood of all believers meant that not only the clergy but also the laity, not only the theologian but also the magistrate, had the capacity to read, understand, and apply the teachi...

Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture

The guiding factor for the development of Christian doctrine is the Bible itself! The text of Scripture provides the grounds and, most important, the limits for this development over time. Rather than bringing in outside influences (such as tradition...

Scripture Alone: Exploring the Bible's Accuracy, Authority, and Authenticity

I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite playroom, of a sort, in which the only boundaries are those of the imagination. I do not love it for the idea of commercial fantasy. Comme...

Stories: All-New Tales

Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find...

At Swim-Two-Birds

There were adventure stories supplied with cloths for mopping your brow, thrillers containing pressed leaves of soothing valerian to be sniffed when the suspense became too great, and books with stout locks sealed by the Atlantean censorship authorit...

The City of Dreaming Books

There should be more or less of a jumble in your head or on your note paper after the first time and even after the second. Much that you will think of in connection will come to nothing and be wasted. But some of it ought to go together under one id...

Robert Frost

Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father in law gave him some schematic lessons. The Liberals, he said, were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institu...

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

The American critic Dale Peck, author of Hatchet Jobs (2004), argues that reviewing finds its true character in critical GBH such as Fischer's [review of Martin Amis's Yellow Dog]. It represents a return to the prehistoric origins of reviewing in Zoi...

John Sutherland