Genuineness is often sacrificed in order to showcase the author's control over the form and subject matter, the end result technically sound but emotionally cold.
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.
Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative...
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over pr...
Few people can present a completely secular argument detailing why abusing toddlers is objectively wrong. But that hardly stops them from recognizing this moral truth even if they can't articulate their reasons in strictly secular terms.
