Quotes of: Author Keyword

The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.

The Everlasting Man

What gives meaning to your life is rooted in your definition of the author of life.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3: Revealing the End of the Age

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First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors

...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...

A Familiar Rain

Any teachings that fail to recognize Jesus Christ as the author of life, is absolutely antichrist.John 1:1-13.

God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

You have authority in your mouth, hence don't need to be afraid; but rather positively affirm!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

God's Silence

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

How To Write Science Fiction

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon

Heart of Glass

I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.

The Big Story: How the Bible Makes Sense out of Life

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

Ai Weiwei

In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.

Noreena Hertz

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Jonathan Ames

Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a father's anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both ...

Michael Leunig

All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'

Michael Leunig

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

Ideas Have Consequences

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections