Quotes About Author

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.

Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it.

not in order to become wiser, but only in order to prove that they know them; and these are the most senseless of the band

Contradictions. Infinite wisdom and infinite folly of religion.

Nature does nothing to avoid the vacuum; rather the weight of the air masses is the true reason for all these phenomena which we have been ascribing to an imaginary cause.

Crash, from the Russian krashenina Noun: a rough fabric sometimes used to strengthen the spine of a book

Jezebel the nun, who violently knits...

Once upon a time You dressed so fine

the housewife is not here. she is running for congress

The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn't help but lose your passion for dumbness.

Sweet Melinda The peasants call her the goddess of gloom.

Lifelessness is the Great Enemy & always wears a hip guard --

I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique...

Colonel Rheault, the commander of the Fifth Special Forces at the time, was the basis for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.

Lee had married the great-step-daughter of General Washington and had thus become part of this noble place.

read first and breakout novels. Reading some bestselling author's latest isn't going to help you much. They could sell their laundry list.

T.J. Waterman had no intention of changing his business empire's practices to avoid climate change.

pages—"it appears a facility has disappeared. More importantly, the organization that was housed in the facility has disappeared." "What organization?" the President asked. The Keep looked up from the papers. "The Time Patrol.

As an author and publisher I work in the entertainment business, which is an oxymoron. Entertainment runs on emotion, while business runs on logic.

His ward upstairs was full of whining old military retirees too afraid to die.

that FDR allowed the internment camps, a black spot on our nation's history.

the difference between aggressive and obnoxious is that the aggressive person has a good book while the obnoxious person has a bad one.

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.