Quotes About Author

I stepped into the kitchen. I didn't close the door behind me. I wanted a quick escape in case . . . well, whatever. The

He wanted to ask why, but the question was so obvious, just hanging out there within easy view, that to voice it would be redundant.

and you quickly learn that your child comes to you hardwired, that in the battle of nature vs nurture, nature kicks complete and total ass.

My client is trussed up like an S-and-M prop," Flair countered. "She's in no danger.

The mixing of metaphors was making Myron dizzy. "Sure. I don't want to cause any problems.

there is something so personal about penmanship, especially hers, the purity and consistency in her cursive, the beauty and the lost art and the individualism

Continue with what?" Myron interrupted. Rule twenty-six of lawyering: Never let the interrogator—cop or fellow attorney—get a rhythm. "You asked her when she last saw her father. She told you.

Chance rose with as much dignity as he could muster, which was absolutely none, and skulked to the front of the bus. Arthur

Rusty's motto: Parties Are for Weekends, Not Politics.

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

He once told me the difference, as he saw it, between an author and a writer. An author (he said) is what they put on your passport, because in Europe they think a writer is a newspaperman. An author is somebody who get his name on the spine of leather-bound volumes that are never read; a writer is someone who gets hemorrhoids from sitting on his ass all his life...writing.

Ashamed apologies and a gentle thank you. I do not digress.

David Gerrold never wrote an episode that Gene thought was shootable … then how do we account for something titled "The Trouble with Tribbles"?)

Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change.

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.

Ellison's Theorem: the further right your position, the less telling your satire. A corollary of which is that you can't lampoon anywhere near where you stand, because you'd annihilate your own troops.

In 1965, I was entertaining author Norman Spinrad in my itty-bitty Los Angeles treehouse, coyly called "Ellison Wonderland," from the book of the same title.

Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. I

Infinite Jest' is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.

Calling a work of sufficient literary power either religious or secular is a political decision, not an aesthetic one.

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, one that expects no liberation from liberation.

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

The idea that you benefit the insulted and injured by reading someone of their own origins rather than reading Shakespeare is one of the oddest illusions ever promoted by or in our schools.

Great styles are sufficient for canonicity because they possess the power of contamination, and contamination is the pragmatic test for canon formation.