Quotes of: Author Keyword

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

Jason Epstein

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

Everett Dirksen

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

Paul Kane

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

Jodi Picoult

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

Michael Polanyi

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Dude: I was one of the original authors of the Port Huron Declaration. Not the compromised second draft...

The Big Lebowski

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Alan Arkin

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Aberjhani

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Alain de Botton

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Arleigh Burke

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge,fitter to bruise than polish." [ ]

Anne Bradstreet

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

Alain de Botton

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

Alain de Botton

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Albert Einstein

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

Anthony Horowitz

Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do.

Auliq Ice

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Arthur Keith

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

Andrej Pejic

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.

Alain Robert

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...

Alina Radoi