Quotes About Author

You want I should drive twenty miles because I got roots?

He wrote a novel, The Moon Is Down, for a precursor to the CIA

Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.

Smiled with amusement at the myths of these country boys.

Why, you mouse—you nasty cur. With goodness all around you—don't you dare suggest a thing like that! Why is your sorrow more refined than my sorrow?

A writer and his work is and should be like a surly dog with a bone, suspicious of everyone, trusting no one, loving no one. It's hard to justify such a life but that's the way it is if it is done well.

There was an iron simplicty in the seer. He was like a monolith of logic standing against waves of angry nonsense.

I'll want to hear," Samuel said. "I eat stories like grapes.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent? And isn't discontent the lever of change?

In a little while Danny assaulted her virtue with true gallantry and vigor.

his writings derive from a basically romantic temperament)

The core of the building would be used to house the requisite utilities; the rentable office space, assured of light, would surround the core.

I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

His gray suit makes him seem extra vulnerable, in the way of children placed in unaccustomed clothes for ceremonies they don't understand.

Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

But my main debt, which may not be evident, was to Hemingway; it was he who showed us all how much tension and complexity unalloyed dialogue can convey, and how much poetry lurks in the simplest nouns and predicates.

full of the belief that a conspiracy of women upholds the world.

I don't recall inclement weather on a fair day.

He] languidly went through the motions, like a disbelieving angel, misplaced in all this adult foolishness.

Our listeners asked us: What is chaos? We're answering: We do not comment on economic policy.

I've read a tiger's not dangerous, They say the tiger won't attack But one thing's not clear to me. Has he read this, too? Does he know?

she was exaggerating the severity of her condition in order to crave sympathy.  Yet

Tannenberg, after the village in which he had established his headquarters and also in order to avenge a Polish victory over Germany on the same battlefield in 1422. Soon afterwards