Quotes of: Author Keyword

In this age of vampires, what I love about 'True Blood' the most is that it's a post-modern take on it. 'Sookie Stackhouse' series author Charlaine Harris and 'True Blood' creator Alan Ball turned that whole mythology upside-down... It's not just abo...

Michelle Forbes

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

Ashwin Sanghi

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Dan Simmons

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Robertson Davies

Success in life is about being lucky - ask any failure! By author: Paul McKenna

The '3-3-3' Enigma: An Invitation To Consciously Create Your Reality

NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR Per G.G.,Chief of Ordnance

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

The Adventures of Huck Finn

We're not mad," he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

Artificial Gods

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Authority and the Individual

God also gave Theologians, Biblical scholars, and Christian authors to mature the Saints and to promote the cause of Christ and God's Kingdom". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

The Jagged Orbit

I am an author that likes to write in many different styles so to use the platform of expression to the absolute best of the ability that I have been given.

Standing at the Top of the Hill

So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him, than they had to Slay him. [Genesis 37].

The Selling Of Joseph

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)

Mansfield Park

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

Misalliance

In the context of Lawrence's rejection of the Freudian notion of incest and the close identification between author and character, Sons and Lovers becomes an exercise in deliberate ambiguity.

The Novels of D. H. Lawrence: A Search for Integration

Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: "slave for Jesus".

Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus

Somehow human authority is never enough; we must have special effects.

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.

Look at the Harlequins!

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust