Quotes About Author

I have it." She got into the passenger seat of the security van.

Is that where Marinth is?

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for '[intelligent] design.' If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.

The question, then, is not "Is story telling science?" but "Can science learn to tell good stories?" (p. 50)

tell you," he muttered, "those reporters out there sure downright bugged me. Trying to make me out a Bilbo or worse. Anything for a story. They sure can be mighty rough boys.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

I suppose he's entitled to his opinion, but I don't suppose it very hard.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Speaking of silence, we can't help talking about me, the past master of this genre.

Bolshoy Fontan ("Big Fountain") is one of the largest and most popular coastal resort districts in Odessa.

And have you ever run across a bright and enlivening sun in Gogol—a man from Ukraine?

If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

Yes, sir," answered the boatswain, a pillar of red meat overgrown with red hair.

ISAAC BABEL was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

As to there ever being a great military organization under him, the thing is absurd.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.