Quotes About Author

The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.

hyphen) is a special metacharacter because it is only a metacharacter when used between [ and ]. Outside of a set, –

Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.

Underneath this stone doth lieAs much beauty as could die;Which in life did harbor giveTo more virtue than doth live.

Reader, look,Not at his picture, but his book.

Those that merely talk and never think,That live in the wild anarchy of drink.

The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand."… I loved the man [Shakespeare] and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.

Riches are in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation

Then he imagined his narrator standing before it, imagined that the gaslight cut across worlds and not just years, that the author and the narrator, while they couldn't face each other, could intuit each other's presence by facing the same light, a kind of correspondence.

And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation, the more intensely the author worried about distinguishing himself from the narrator, the more he felt he had become him.

To the distinguished female author's left was her husband, probably also distinguished in some way, who had the look of many husbands: eyebrows perpetually raised a little in a defensive mask of polite interest, signifying boredom.

I asked him to look at me and then promised him in two languages the only thing I could: he had nothing to fear from Joseph Kony.

Because you believe, even though you'll deny it, that writing has some kind of magical power. And you're probably crazy enough to make your fiction come true somehow.

I'd become the unreliable narrator of my first novel.

I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness

Ningún escritor es libre de renunciar a su momento político, pero la literatura refleja la política, no influye en ella, una distinción importante.

Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.

It did his career no longterm damage, but Dudley Clarke's strange episode of cross-dressing remains an enduring mystery.

journalists (another tribe adept at misremembering the past)

As "a spur to rumor-spreading,"32 the crew was solemnly sworn to secrecy.

Ernest Hemingway based Robert Jordan, the main character in For Whom the Bell Tolls, partly on Umar Mamsurov.

He revealed nothing about Ursula's activities and his own work on behalf of Soviet intelligence.