The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics.
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are ...
If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of herself, a creative endeavor she has poured her heart and soul into. Protecting and nurturing that work and the au...
The trouble with our society is that responsibility and authority have become separated," he went on, warming to his theme. "The people with the authority to do things no longer take any responsibility for what they do whereas the people like us who ...
I often get asked the question, 'If you had to compare your writing to an author who would it be?' My answer is always the same; the author I compare myself to is me. Every writer has a unique style relevant to only themselves. I am nothing like othe...
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....
These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.
Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.
