Quotes About Author

When news of the results got out, it caused many Americans to look at their country with a new sense of self-loathing. "We have a working majority of voters who have children's minds," a prominent newspaper editor named William Allen White declared.

White was convinced that the "moron majority," as he dubbed it, must be a recent development.

Goddard died at age ninety. In their obituary, the Associated Press remembered him for two accomplishments: coining the word moron and discovering the Kallikaks.

Galton recognized that in order to win people to his cause, he would need, as he put it, "a brief word to express the science of improving stock." In 1883, he came up with an enduring term: eugenics.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

Julian had once told me that a story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to battle with nine orangutans.--Don Anacleto

In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.

This is emotional blackmail.' 'No, it's life.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived it and dreamed with it.

A story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Perhaps if by chance I was seen arranging the shop window in my underpants, some lady in need of strong literary emotions would be drawn in and inspired to part with a bit of hard cash. According to expert opinion, the future of literature depends on women and as God is my witness the female is yet to be born who can resist the allure of this stupendous physique.

Every book, every volume that you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it.

If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?

An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.

Se não confiar num escritor de romances, vai confiar em quem?

Mr. Aguilar belonged to that race of privileged minds who are always right.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

dicen los entendidos que el futuro de la literatura depende de las mujeres

Wann wollen Sie das gesehen habe?' 'Als Sie ihn unten im Café hypnotisiert haben. Sie beide sahen aus wie eine Königskobra und ein Kaninchen.

Fermín Romero de Torres, currently unemployed. Pleased to meet you.

after the classics what he most enjoyed were tales of crime, boudoir intrigue, and questionable conduct.

He sculpted his sentences neatly, measuring them out with a cadence that seemed to promise an ultimate moral that never emerged.