Quotes About Author

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

This was the man God gave us when the hour Proclaimed the dawn of Liberty begun.

Treason doth never prosper: what 's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

A man in his late twenties, with the minimal dress sense and mixture of earnestness and confusion which led Millington to mark him down as a social worker

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme.

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

He read Leo Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief and was deeply influenced by it.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden of the story is to the author's psyche.

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Skepticism about ever being able to reach firm conclusions is both reflected in, and encouraged by, the Italian language.

Aldred the weasel took up the tale.

I spent years," he told me, "studying the phenomenon of love." "And I spend years studying the phenomenon of justice." "At base, we spend years studying the same thing.

Never ask me what I have said, or what I have written; but if you will ask me what my present opinions are, I will tell you".

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles—your Magus of words

She's like the Pied Piper of Manhattan--with road rage." - Madhattan Mystery

Guess what hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia means? Fear of long words. Isn't that the coolest?" - Kevin McGill in Madhattan Mystery

AMERICANS - U. S. NAVY, HAWAII Chester W. Nimitz,

I don't take orders from you." Then Skelly looked out the landing bay entrance at Cynda. He winked. "I saved you, sweetheart!" He pushed the button.

He asked me to pour him some whiskey and announced flatly his intention to nap.

All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...

My thinking was this: Just because you're out to curb some of the ridiculous costs doesn't mean you're out to weaken the nation's defense.