Quotes About Author

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.