Quotes About Author

Trump will not respond to reasoned argument. He will not be held accountable for the things he said. All you can do is point and laugh. Because the devil cannot abide mockery.

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.

Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.