Quotes About Author

In the early years, it was my fear that drove my need to understand. i did not want to be destroyed. In fact i wanted to be created.

I've taken the liberty of sending your work to America. One of our former colonies across the water. They've handled their independence rather well, I always think.

At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires,

Crabs, crabs, crabs. Crabs the size of beach donkeys.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

sharp rap at the door, followed by an extremely welcome: "Police!

Michael, there in front of me. Each expression of helpless submission or bored compliance. This was him. How he passed. And living like that, of course, you would now and then end up with fiancees which had to be shaken off.

He opened us—who was a key,who was a man.

STUDENTS GET FIRST HAND JOB EXPERIENCE' is a newspaper headline that I have seen with my own eyes. I think you'll agree: it needed a hyphen, either between 'first' and 'hand' or between 'hand' and 'job', depending.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

All those bastards are alive! Alive! All of them!" ¡Están todos los huevones vivos!

member of the O'Higgins team, González

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

So I'll take all your books. But the cathedrals I'll leave behind. Their stone is sad and male.

What color was his voice? A very beautiful voice. No one can give us the same feeling of beauty and kindness. […] He'd say that he could hear the sun rising.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.