Quotes About Author

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.

There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.

'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.

The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

Eazy was a true visionary. He really was like flesh and blood. Like a son. He was a good kid. He was the best.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

No, the irony hasn't been lost on me: the happiness book has been making me miserable.

His expression is intense but gentle, a combination of a wise elder and a stuffed animal, and it comes with a message:

High-functioning patients are those who can form relationships, manage adult responsibilities, and have a capacity for self-reflection.

on the screen. Maybe in this way, he is a psychiatrist to many—and maybe his bravery in writing about his own loss had inspired me to write about mine.

And once he was gone, I filled the void by Google-stalking him when I should have been writing. So many of our destructive behaviors take root in an emotional void, an emptiness that calls out for something to fill

I suggest that across the seasons of Buffy there has been an increasing exaggeration of bad girls...In some ways, instead of challenging these stereotypes of bad girls, the show has emphasized them. This matches the development of the show's good girls.

I almost envy your horse," she said, "because these thighs hug him all day." -Rebecca to Jake

at the end she'd be nothing more than a memory, if that.

The library, I presume," he said quietly. "I've a fondness for libraries.

ll return it to you as soon as all this is over.I'd rather you keep it as a remembrance of when you were my wife.

I should warn you that I'm not a woman easily enticed by words. I prefer action." His eyes darkened, and she realized she'd used a poor choice of expression when he said in a low sensual voice, "I'm in total agreement. Perhaps later—

And what costume shall the poor girl wearTo all tomorrow's partiesA hand-me-down dress from who knows whereTo all tomorrow's parties

Everything that happens in philosophy has, in the last instance, not only political consequences in theory, but also political consequences in politics: in the political class struggle.

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.

To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it.