Quotes About Author

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Pritchard tutted. "Justice? Justice is even more problematic than truth. It's an emergent property of a very complicated system.

He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

It is not the soul that speaks its mind, but the mind that speaks its soul, that will be heard.

During any experience placed before us, we can stay in alignment with positivity, truth, and goodness by asking the question: What would honor and love do here?

...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

When a self-evident truth is presented, don't surprised when self-centeredness fights back...

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

In truth, I'm not really a cat person. Seamus, the wonder dog, still deeply mourned by all who knew him, was just about the only pet I've ever really loved.

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.

The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Goodreads.com is actually about fiction not dreading goo. But I have a profile there, anyway...

Dawkins's result can only be obtained because of the element of intelligent design embedded in the whole experiment.

Figure 3.2   Towers Perrin total rewards model

The indie underground made a modest way of life not just attractive but a downright moral imperative.