You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?
Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!
Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.
The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.
These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.
I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.
We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.
At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to find time to escape for a few minutes.
Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.
