The ego wants to rule, but the heart will quietly prevail." -Jennifer Ritchie Payette, co-author, "Modular Career Design
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay.
If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.
'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.
