Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.
'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.
We have evidence that a number of Bahrainis who oppose our government are being trained in Syria. I have seen the files and we have notified the Syrian authorities, but they deny any involvement.
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.
Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.
Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
