Quotes About Author

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it would be fun to throw that in the mix.

I think the biggest influence on the book, as far as the humor goes, comes, at least indirectly, from the men I worked with in the paper mill. Some of them could make a dog laugh.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

I was trying to capture this man's [Idi Amin] energy, and I did a lot of research in studying him. I tried to capture his 'Warrior King' energy inside of me as much as possible.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.