Quotes About Author

I turned to the page on decorated buttons and tried to ponder their beauty instead of my own loneliness, trying to will myself into being a sociopath.

A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar.

At night the monsters under the beds begged him to come make love to them.

I guess it was worth having your self-esteem destroyed if there was a free toy involved.

Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at.

It was terrifying to have the responsibility of living in a world that was filled with so much wonder.

Ridiculous. You guys are going to have the most boring documentary on earth, I said and stormed inside. Could you walk in the building again, but slower and don't slam the door, Hugo called after me.

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

near them grow dreamlike fairy-tale flowers whose leaves stir in the moonlight.

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.

Yes, I know better; God created man so that he might admire the splendour of the world. Every author, be he never so great, wants his work to be praised.

I am a writer. The proof of how I am feeling is always in my pen.

Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, "There is joy in self-forgetfulness.

Literature is my Utopia...No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends

Even notoriety may be turned to beneficent uses, and I rejoice if the disposition of the newspapers to record my activities results in bringing more often into their columns the word Socialism.

I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life: 'The Catcher in the Rye.'

'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting.

I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate students. It seems almost uncivilized to tell someone writing a novel, 'No, you have to call this a memoir.'

My writing is sort of 'Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.'

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.