Quotes About Author

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

He called himself her pimp, except for the fact, he said, that he didn't like standing in the night air.

I'll make it pleasurable for you, Injun, he promised. And we'll do it face to face, so your wolf won't think I'm dominating you. No doggy style.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

But Mr. Glanville was in a terrible Confusion, and silently cursed his ill Fate, to make him in Love with a Woman so ridiculous.

The Empire of Love, said she, like the Empire of Honour is govern'd by Laws of its own, which have no Dependence upon, or Relation to any other.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

Women accept [man-made] conventions, repeat them, enforce them upon their daughters; but they originate with men.

Punishment [is] applied like a rabbit's foot, with as little regard to its efficacy.

Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

After all, this is wholesome, family-friendly entertainment

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

A literary approach pays attention to both what Mark tells us and how he tells it.

Until now (1960, date of the first edition), the history of Black Africa has always been written with dates as dry as laundry lists, and no one has almost ever tried to find the key that unlocks the door to the intelligence, the understanding of African society.

If it were that important, SHIELD would have sent me." "Remember that conversation we had about being more supportive?" "Sorry.

There was a flamboyance, a theatricality about him: his dark hair was perfectly silvered at the temples and there was a Byronic grandeur in his demeanour.

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

I love ghosts; I prefer ghosts to some people.

Prayer, even prayer for what God desires, releases power by the operation of a deep spiritual law; and to offer up what one loves may release still more. —SHELDON VANAUKEN (1914–1996), American author and editor

OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY I'd consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I could've avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.

She was a decent storyteller, but a crap liar, for all the sense that made.

Adrian had a Guinness because I guess he felt like drinking a loaf of bread or something. That's what it smelled like, anyway.