The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.
