Quotes About Author

do not tolerate them in our home system. We must protect

I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not.

Bee, have you considered a job as a counselor? I think you'd be really good at relating to people. Have you ever met any people by the way?

his writing had stalled (the market perhaps saturated at last with egotistical male writers);

I write detective novels when I'm not ghostwriting. I'd never gotten any of them published, and that, of course, was the main thing I didn't want to think about. But writing them is what keeps me going.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Writers don't have bad life days; they just have good research days.

If shame is cried upon him, he will point out that today he has to earn his living, and that it is not his fault if he is eager to support the class which takes a pleasure in his productions.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

ViaÈ›a noastr? e o carte care se scrie singur?. Noi suntem niÈ™te personaje de roman care nu înÈ›eleg întotdeauna prea bine ce vrea autorul.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. I don't want to go on playing in a world where everyone cheats. Where everyone cheats - not only men and women, but sometimes even God.

Notre vie est un livre qui s'écrit tout seul. Nous sommes des personnages de roman qui ne comprennent pas toujours bien ce que veut l'auteur.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities. --- Charlotte Bronte

The language of lists is not symbolic; it is an enumeration given meaning only if one recognizes it as the accoutrements of the subject.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

Se sabe que las bicicletas han tratado por todos los medios de remediar su triste condición social. Pero en absolutamente todos los países de la tierra 'está prohibido entrar con bicicletas'. Algunos agregan: 'y perros', lo cual duplica en las bicicletas y en los canes su complejo de inferioridad.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

La novela es ese gran combate que libra el escritor consigo mismo porque hay en ella todo un mundo, todo un universo en que se debaten juegos capitales del destino humano

porque los atacó la seca, como Juan Rulfo.

Gustav Meyrink. The latter is the author of novels which reflect esoteric knowledge in an exceptionally pure fashion (for this reason, I was later to translate three of Meyrink's novels: Walpurgis Night , The White Dominican and The Angel of the West Window - which I published for Bocca under a pseudonym)