Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins
Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.
No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then read my book.
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.
If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
