Quotes About Author

It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer.

The good is by virtue my willing it. Otherwise it has no existence.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

I like Star Wars, it's fun and I enjoy doing it. But it's definitely not my life. I'm a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.

As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

I think we come at it from somewhat different perspectives. You know, Donald [Trump] was very fortunate in his life, and that's all to his benefit.

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Wonder what it's like to have a peaceful life," Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.