Quotes About Author

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

Maybe I shouldn't mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.

I also have a feeling your mother's going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said

My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.

Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother."What?""She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!""Take a picture for me, " Grandma said.

Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes... Well, that might work, but does your mother live near here?

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

That's a good weight...for a small woman

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.