Quotes About Author

rang the doorbells of our fifth-floor neighbors. Chicken Kiev

You have an honest way of writing, especially your first book. It's genuine. That may not seem like the most thrilling compliment, but a voice like yours—a real voice—is rare these days.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

I'm praising you this morning for the Scriptures, for they are constantly redirecting my wandering heart to its true destination.

Certainly, de Grandin was not the first occult detective—Algernon Blackwood's John Silence, Hodgson's Thomas Carnacki, and Sax Rohmer's Moris Klaw preceded him—nor was he the last, as Wellman's John Thunstone, Margery Lawrence's Miles Pennoyer, and Joseph Payne Brennan's Lucius Leffing all either overlapped with the end of de Grandin's run or followed him.

Me, I know the by-ways of ghostland as I know my own pocket, and I solemnly assure you there is no such thing as the supernatural. There is undoubtedly the superphysical; there is also that class of natural phenomena which we do not understand; but the supernatural? Non, it is not so.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

Beowulf is my name."" June 4, 2022 – 52.0% ""hand-to-hand is how it will be, a life-and-death fight with the fiend. Whichever one death fells must deem it a just judgement by God.

It bothers me to have to burden anyone with all the grief Grendel has caused and the havoc he has wreaked upon us in Heorot, our humiliations

They said that of all the kings upon the earth he was the man most gracious and fair-minded, kindest to his people

Afterwards a boy-child was born to Shield, a cub in the yard, a comfort sent by God...

Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark, nursed a hard grievance.

In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

That's how science works. We don't "prove" results like we can in mathematics or logic; we simply add to their plausibility by accumulating more and more evidence.

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.