Quotes of: Author Keyword

If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you could conclude that if you are said author, you are in love with yourself.

Heather Dowell

Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

John Ortberg

My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

Amy Tan

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

Harold Russell

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to...

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities ...

Timothy Leary

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.

The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true.

10 Alone

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

There is no such thing as lack of time, only unclear priorities and lack of motivation. It is better to abandon a project than to work on it half-heartedly for a protracted period of time.

The Author's Blueprint

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

The Art of Listening

Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy.

The Age of Napoleon

The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Obedience to Authority

Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.

Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Texas Gothic

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey