Quotes of: Author Keyword

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

Daniel Yergin

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Noam Chomsky

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

Roy Moore

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

Ken Follett

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Karin Slaughter

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Roth

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

Lisa Gardner

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Amy Chua

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

Amanda Hocking

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

Arthur Smith

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.

Aniruddha Sastikar

Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.

Alison Tyler

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

Amish Tripathi

The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.

Alex G. Zarate

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Behan

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Michael Ignatieff

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

Anita Hill

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

Stephen R. Donaldson

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

Twyla Tharp