As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.
Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.
When you find the church you're supposed to be in, you will recognize the pastor’s voice as an important spiritual authority in your life.
My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.
I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.
Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
