Quotes About Author

While in Aspen, I was on a panel one evening with Andre Dubus III, who spoke of what happens when a memoir devolves into self-pity: "Wah, wah, wah. Should we call the wambulance?

I wouldn't trust him to feed my cats for the weekend. He can't quite manage his Pokemon Go account... That's who's deciding what gets to be said and what's not to be said?

abused prosperity is oftentimes made the means of our greatest adversity

Not only a fanatic and an incendiary (two of the insults that dogged Defoe most closely in his lifetime), the author of Robinson Crusoe was also an egregious spiv, and a slave to bling.

for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of.

If I swing by the string, I shall hear the bell ring, And then there's an end of poor Jenny

In 1719—at the age of 59—Defoe turned his attention for the first time to an extended work of prose fiction, presenting his account of events of which he had no direct experience. Robinson Crusoe, the account of the shipwreck and survival of one man, became a great success, and Defoe turned his full attention to his lucrative writing career.

very bad indeed. Defoe never acquired a really good style, and can in no true sense be called a master of the English tongue. Nature had gifted Defoe with untiring energy, a keen taste for public affairs

This is written in miserable doggerel verse. That Defoe should have mistaken it for poetry, and should have prided himself upon it accordingly, is only a proof of how incompetent an author is to pass judgment upon what is good and what is bad in his own work.

which I look upon with contempt as the effect of manifest ignorance and enthusiasm;

You can't separate the cause of an emotion from the world of relationships—our social interactions are what drive our emotions.

el ambiente representa casi un tercio de los resultados. Por tanto, es un impacto demasiado importante como para ignorarlo.

los modelos de competencia ponen claramente de relieve el gran peso que desempeñan cuestiones no académicas como la empatía

I'm writing it in a letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.

She licked her lips and then wiped them on her hand, her dark lipstick staining her wrist like a suicide.

and then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio...

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.

A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among other people who write and publish them, is that they did get to be in this unrecognized ghetto for a long time.

I guess it's funny how life turns out? she tried. Not last I checked, Errol said with a snort.

For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the complication, you're probably it.

I'm very happy for you guys. I heard my voice, so false it was all the statues could do to keep themselves from rolling their eyes.

And I hope that someday I'll do another something stupid and I'll have to say it a million times because that's how long it'll be, together with you, Min. With you.

I hereby demand that all people who are good at math make the world free of illness.