Quotes About Author

Bad fiction uses the glossy generality; good writing needs the smattering of detail, the unrelenting busy mystery of the real.

I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives.

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

Pardon my pants. I'm fresh from an axe murder.

Cocky spilled a little of the tea on the folded towel Flynn had on the edge of the desk for just that purpose—for Cocky to spill on it. "That's lovely," said Flynn.

Stop! let me go back because the sparkling frost covers the yard and now your last stop on Earth is frozen

True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.

the Arthurian material was never merely 'legends'; it was a myth—a timeless, universal story with many meanings.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

The whole drama of pandemic created is to sell medicine, vaccines, ppe, ventilators etc and profit healthcare people.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged.

Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good writing habits delivers on time. The aspiring author who is prone to perfectionism will likely never fin...

My blue mask as a God puts on his sky

J'aime mieux me promener sur les quais, cette délicieuse bibliothèque publique.

Comme Margaret Atwood, je pense que vouloir rencontrer un écrivain parce qu'on aime son livre, c'est comme vouloir rencontrer un canard parce qu'on aime le foie gras.

De las veinte decisiones que tomo cada día, dieciocho son intuitivas, a partir de la observación.

Ramon Besa put it wonderfully: 'He is a bit of a Quixote. In an era of fast food, Pep wants degustation football, as if it were a wine.

instilling a new regime of professionalism that was missing even from the first team.