Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.
[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.
You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.
Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.
Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.
I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.
The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.
Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.
Donegan Bane and Gracious O'Callahan - the Monster Hunters. Adventurers, inventors, authors of and it's sequels, and
Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?
Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.
Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority
