Quotes About Author

After having read the manuscript, you may well want to know more about the author's intentions before you make blind assumptions in your editorial letter.

need a drink of Ella's hot soup." Ella brought the warm broth

Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.

It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.

Have we," he wondered, "conceived a merely human project and then imagined it to be a decree of the Almighty?

Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.

A man ahead of his time, Oresme suggested that the source of demons and specters could be the disease of melancholy.

by To Kill a Mockingbird. At the top of the nonfiction list was My Life in Court by Louis Nizer. That week also saw the publication of one of the finest works of history

the Regents' dislike of the social "leveling" they sensed in the Revolution was stronger.

This was not necessarily a deliberate effort to be offensive; it was normal for General Staff officers to be offensive.

He said that whatever the outcome in America, he would always regard it as a glory and honor to have upheld the cause which he regarded as that of all humankind.

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.

London is the best place in the world to cure a person of extravagance.

So you hired a whore, didn't fornicate at all, and did impromptu major surgery on her?» he asked. «Exactly! Aren't I horny and honorable and brave and resourceful?»

I was fairly puzzled as I thought over all the divisions of the most learned Church in the most religious country in the world.

Therefore science and religion are each necessary, the one to distinguish individualities, the other to bring individualities into unity.

Reason is a faculty for extracting truth out of materials provided by the sentiment.

For me the cosmic aeons lie complete, O Love, between thy forehead and thy feet!

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

I never start by making up a bunch of characters and then wonder what might happen to them. I think of a situation, an impossible dilemma, a moral or emotional quandary, and then wonder to whom it might happen and when and where.

This is I have to admit, one murky compartment of the female psyche which has yet to benefit from the oven-scourer of Reason.

But the absence of bad motives in no way alleviates the bad effects.

I've definitely sunk to an all-time new low: I've been fired by Opie.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.