Quotes About Author

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

My heart, but you were dovewinged, I can tell, Carrier-witted, I am bold to boast...

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

To know to know to love her so.Four saints prepare for saints.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.

Homer, whose own language was certainly heroic, in five passages from his two poems [437] mentions a more ancient language and calls it "the language of the gods.

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?

We were fighting for them in wars against people that we had more in common with than with the United States of Banana.

Nel discorso di accettazione del Nobel che ho già ricordato, Nadine Gordimer evoca una frase di Gabriel García Márquez: "Il modo migliore in cui uno scrittore può servire la rivoluzione è scrivere il meglio che può". Senza imbrogli, senza scorciatoie, dicendo la verità.

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.