Quotes About Author

I've spent my life writing and now I'm writing about my life." HANNAH COLLINS - AUTHOR

Gisele thought it a little harsh of Nigel to be questioning her and expecting sensible answers after all she had just endured.

In Germany I am not so famous.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

Precisely because heaven is already present on earth, the moral lives of Christians on earth are to reflect their heavenly participation.

The primary task of theology (and let's forget here about the distinction between biblical and dogmatic theology) is not to explain the historical meaning of the text but to use the Scriptures as a means of grace in drawing the reader to Jesus Christ.

In principle this implies something else, something harder to grasp, namely, that his whole suffering—a suffering that goes to the utter limits—follows from and actually expresses his eternal, triune joy.

Maximus envisages a naturally lasting cosmos as the supporting ground for all supernatural divinization.

seeks it for us, who have need of such illumination. So also the Word became flesh, not for himself, but rather to bring the mystery of the Incarnation to reality for our sakes.

Happy Golf requires goofy pants and a fat ass. You should talk to my neighbor the accountant. Probably a great golfer. Huge ass.

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.

It was his own miscegenation--his sensual enjoyment of a dark forbidden culture and his own forbidden longings and love--that dovetailed in his writings.

I'm a decent-minded man. I'm Hobson. I'm British middle class and proud of it. I stand for common sense and sincerity. You're

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee

General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission.

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.