Quotes About Author

Walter, it's a suitcase—you don't put a suitcase on a bed where you sleep. You know how dirty suitcases are?

The dynamic, however necessary, may have misshaped her subjective world in the same way that a miracle drug may leave someone with lifelong vulnerabilities.

His success was due in part to his ability to spread his own paranoia, the fear that there was always somebody about to attack.

For all our penny-wisdom,'" he said, "'for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.

a kaleidoscope of narrative more than any coherent story.

Living to glorify God means doing everything... for Him, His way, to point to His greatness and to reflect His goodness.

In 1960, Joy wrote of her experiences raising Elsa in the bestselling book Born Free which was adapted into an Academy award-winning film. In 1980 Joy was tragically murdered on her reserve, but her conservation work continues through the Elsemere Trust.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Aunt Emily's writing is as wispy and hard to decipher as the marks of a speed skater on ice.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

Memory is the resurrection. The dead move among us the living in our memory and that is the resurrection.

This is a work of history in fictional form—that is, in personal perspective, which is the only kind of history that exists.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

My romance writing began with an avid romance-reading mother who devoured so many romances each week that I decide to save library trips by supplementing the supply myself.

I regret now that I didn't listen to their stories more closely, for they were yarn spinners, too.

Joan Wilder? The novelist? I read your booooks!

La calidad literaria es inversamente proporcional al número de lectores.

Una navaja en el cuello. ¿La literatura o la vida?, preguntó el ladrón. Desde entonces no he vuelto a escribir nada. Supongo que estoy muerto.

Sin embargo una convicción caprichosa me ha acompañado desde siempre: la de que Shakespeare era en realidad un novelista que no había encontrado su medio

Las crónicas de Indias, como lo sabe todo el que conoce el discurso de García Márquez al recibir el Premio Nobel, pueden muy bien ser el verdadero orden de la literatura latinoamericana.

soy el viejo Benson —dijo con una inclinación de la cabeza y una sonrisa misteriosa—. Mayordomo de la familia Black

Diaries of Garry Shandling

He] looked at her as though she'd lost her mind, and [she] had her first experience of men rewriting history. "I did no such thing [he said]

sight." "Yeah?" That blue fire returned