Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Dalai Lama

Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?

Jonathan Safran Foer

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

John Green

The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.

John Wycliffe

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Carl Hiaasen

I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.

Charles B. Rangel

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

Ned Vizzini

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

Daniel Yergin

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Noam Chomsky

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

Roy Moore

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

Ken Follett

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Karin Slaughter

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Roth

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

Lisa Gardner

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Amy Chua

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

Amanda Hocking

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

Arthur Smith