Quotes of: Author Keyword

My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

The Fault in Our Stars

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.„

Genetically Altered

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

The God Delusion

Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.

Boy & Girl

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

Charles Hodge

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

James Rollins

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that...

Rick Perlstein

We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.

Cassandra Clare

Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.

Stephen Sondheim

You should author the narration of your life and organization. If you don't, someone will, and you may not like it.

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

The Intentional Fallacy

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Just Another Number

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

Relentless

Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.

The Red Notebook: True Stories

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Around the Godde there forms a Shelle of prayers and Ceremonies and Buildings and Priestes and Authority, until at Last the Godde Dies. Ande this maye notte be noticed.

Small Gods

The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is forbidden.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays