Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
The distribution might which Penguin brought to the table and the stature they gave me as an author is unparalleled.
I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.
An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.
My favorite aspect of being an author has always been visiting different communities and meeting my readers face to face.
I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.
As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.
Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.
Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.
Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.
The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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.
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.
Cloud Atlas' is but one of a long list of titles deemed unfilmable, by author and movie moguls alike, until it was, well, filmed.
While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
If I had to read only one author, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I love the mystical, magical quality of his writing.
I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.