Quotes About Author

When he comes to the door he always looks mocking and half-way angry. You can see he has sympathy for nothing. It's written on his forehead that he can love no one.

Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.

Viewed from the heights of reason, all life looks like some malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Of style or beauty of expression he would need to take no account, for the value of a book lies in its truth and its actuality rather than in its wording.

For a loaf is something baked and a nose is something different.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

Stuart had in a masterly way screened Lee's maneuvers in the Wilderness

It is beyond doubt that Xi and Li understand, and even acknowledge, that reform is no longer a choice but a necessity,

at any given time about 30 percent of the stocks on China's markets are being manipulated.

No fair! Those guys ripped off what we rightfully stole!

Ask me. I'm a cow expert.

The key question I learned to ask myself when I read was, "What is the author trying to say?

The critical issue was that she was peer dependent, which, given her psychological immaturity, delivered a devastating blow to parenting.

John Le Carre said that authenticity is less important than plausibility.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

My Kindle reads to me Fifty Shades of Grey. It's like having an obscene phone call from Professor Stephen Hawking.

Life will become intolerable for a bearded man when children rise up out of the pavement at every step, and surround him with the loud shouts of "Beaver!"

Colder than lunar rainbows, changefuller Than sleeked purples on a pigeon's neck.

Nothing is more unfair to an author than to read or "dip into" his book before seeing what he has to say about it in his Preface.

A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded.

Two Spirits at the childless widow's bed, Childless no more, have by the pitying heavens Been sent...

Tea is good while reading dusty books. Coffee pairs well with shiny things and the real world.