Quotes About Author

It is not hard to understand and remember. It is hard to feel and to believe.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. Writing is writing and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Hey, if your looking for a dad-burn superstar, look at this kid. He was so good today, I wanted to caddie for him

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

I will not be cleansed of knowledge. Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it. And

And showed the names whom love of God had bless'd,And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it.

Literature doesn't exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.

I can see the headline now: 'murderer attempts to murder murderer.

Tea should be bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

But unlike this book, the dictionary also discusses words that are far more pleasant to contemplate. The word 'bubble' is in the dictionary, for instance, as is the word 'peacock,' the word 'vacation,' and the words 'the' 'author's' 'execution' 'has' 'been' 'canceled,' which makes a sentence that is always pleasant to hear.

There are many mysteries I have never solved, and the hair of my chaperone is perhaps my most curious unsolved case.

All good writing is like this. It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquaintance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be a familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.

If someone had told me, that day at the beach, that before long I'd find myself using my four teeth to scrape the bark off trees, I would have said they were psychoneurotically disturbed.

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.

I will thank you not to be impertinent," said Aunt Josephine, using a word which here means "pointing out that I'm wrong, which annoys me".

on the Pip and Squeak asking for a taxi tip) "How about a tip?" "Here's a tip," I said. "Next time you're at the library, check out a book about a champion of the world." "By that author with all the chocolate?" "Yes, but this one's even better It has some very good chapters in it." "That's the kind of tip we can use," Squeak said. "Pip reads to me between fares.

Don't be a smart aleck," Hungry said. "But it cheers me up," I said.

Page thirteen of the Baudelaire file was not a crowded sheet of paper - there was just one photography and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the photograph was taken, or to make three siblings sit and stare at a page for a long time, as if an entire book were printed on one sheet of paper.

They could only stare at Esme's shoes and wonder why she as wearing footwear that was so violent and impractical.

I'm not a math tutor," I said. "I don't feel the need to check your work.