Quotes About Author

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

I think the marketing needs work.

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 don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing