Quotes About Author

ever since she had read the girl's novel, a piece of artistry that struck her as wish-fulfilment at its most blatant...

It might not be so unpleasant, you know, to do me one or two favours in exchange for becoming a famous authoress.

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.

My mind soars and whirls in a dance of wild fear and graceful hope.

It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

A treed cat, a man in love, and the French. God help the fool who tries to rescue any one of them.

Hose-pipe – car exhaust – locked room – all that, not original,' he blurted out at last. 'Plagiarism. All in a book.' 'In

weal on his face. 'I'm inclined to agree with you,' he

In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade

How sweet it was to be scolded by such a tiny.

Nothing in my tale seemed to surprised the woman. The cat, on the other hand, seemed not to find a word of it credible.

In his writing, capitals popped up in his sentences like lost gophers.

I am using the phrase "the hidden machinery" to refer to two different aspects of novel making: on the one hand how certain elements of the text—characters, plot, imagery—work together to make an overarching argument; on the other how the secret psychic life of the author, and the larger events of his or her time and place, shape that argument. (p. 29)

Olive later said her release provoked mixed reactions from the rest of the tribe.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

As both lemons and pearl barley were now obtainable (1952), this refreshing drink formed part of one invalid menu....

Madonna, Madonna, delicious Madonna, why is it that they don't make red wine in Germany? What do you mean, there are some aren't there ? Nope, they're white, Madonna, Madonna, delicious Madonna, why is it that there are no red wines in Germany?

SPIDER: I guess you've got a point. RAYNIEDAY: No, I've got a stake, LOL.

It is less important—and ultimately perhaps rather futile—to reach ethical or intellectual conclusions about the unconscious than it is to create a space of inquiry where we diligently attend to how it continues to reincarnate the past in the present.

If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.

Stelele sunt asezate astfel incat sa formeze litere. Alfabete celeste. Scrieri care se schimba pe masura ce se mischa pamantul. Daca te uiti asa la cer, ai senzatia ca e un imens poem schimbator , sau poate o schrisoare , care initial a avut un autor, apoi, dupa ce pamantul s-a mischat, un alt autor a completat-o . Asa ca stau si ma uit la cer, pana cand , intr-o zi , voi putea s-o citesc.

Maria Dahvana Headley

William Morris's glitteringly bonkers 1896 experiment in archaically toned berserkery;