Quotes About Author

Obscurely disappointed, as we sometimes are when the things we profess to dislike don't happen, she looked up abruptly and smiled at him.

what was that horrible late twentieth-century tautology? Proactive. More proactive in the face of the future.

I don't think the argument in favour of libraries is especially ideological or ethical. I would even agree with those who say it's not especially logical. I think for most people it's emotional. Not logos or ethos but pathos.

I was completely unreachable, for the first time in years. It gave me an unexpected but not unpleasant sense of stillness, of being outside of time: it reminded me somehow of childhood.

Maybe you could say she was overly precise sometimes, not especially creative, or lacking in soul.

Svaka knjiga, svaki svezak koji vidiš, ima dušu. Dušu onoga koji ju je napisao i onih koji su je ?itali, proživeli i uz nju sanjarili. Svaki put kada knjiga pre?e iz ruke u ruku, svaki put kad neko pogledom preleti njene stranice, njen duh raste i ja?a. Karlos Ruis Safon: Senka vetra

Ken sat glued to his seat in mingled fear and wrath. Was he to be the butt of those overbearing sophomores?

did not at first give vague disappointment, a confounding of reality, a disenchantment of contrast with what the mind had conceived.

the foot of his chair.

Panhandle Smith was the red-faced cook, merry

and returned. To Duane the outlaw

Motion picture rights brought in a fortune and, with 109 films based on his work, Grey set a record yet to be equaled by any other author.

keep me from ridin' trail. But you're acting

Nico: Prodigium effodio -- what does that mean again? Vision: Excavating monster. It's Latin. Nico: Damn, how much time did you spend in the library? Vision: I am a library.

Poor old Sheba regarded Connolly with much the same amazement and delight as you or I would a monkey who strolled out of the rain forest and asked for a gin and tonic.

Men," she said, rueful, "are the most absurd creatures on this green earth." "But there are camels," Gabriel pointed out. "Believe me," she answered, "I've taken camels into consideration.

see, it was nice. The fact that the thought

For Zora Neale Hurston has been "rediscovered" in a manner unprecedented in the black tradition:

The myths she describes so accurately are in fact "alternative modes for perceiving reality," and never just condescending depictions of the quaint.

These two "speech communities," as it were, are Hurston's great sources of inspiration not only in her novels but also in her autobiography.

Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible.

As author, she functions as "a midwife participating in the birth of a body of folklore,…the first wondering contacts with natural law." The myths she describes so accurately are in fact "alternative modes for perceiving reality," and never just condescending depictions of the quaint.

I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.

I love 'Downton Abbey.'