Quotes About Author

Man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master; but the Author of his being must be the director of his motions and the centre of them.

The law only shows us our disease; the gospel shows us our help in Christ.

All our hopes and joys take their rise from him who is the author of our salvation.

Who was it who said that irony is the fundamental operating principle of the universe?" "I believe," I said, "that it was Henghis Hapthorn.

Everett found to his chagrin that questions that appeared minor gained incredible staying power and significance from even the most tenuous connection to slavery.

A war to end slavery seems more compelling" to twenty-first-century Americans and far less abstract than a war for union.

Genius. Part Dickensian, part modern. Incisive, outlandish and hilarious. There's a brilliance in The Gay Street Chronicles.

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Small clients, by contrast, are intellectually challenging, enjoyable to work for, and miserably unprofitable.

The unity on the right is in fact prima facie evidence of its duplicity.

He made it a rule never to tell anyone the contents of stories he was still writing. It would be like a jinx. The moment the words left his mouth, a certain something would vanish like the morning dew. Subtle nuances would become superficial scenes. Secrets would no longer be secrets.34

Empathy is indeed needed to trigger the arising of compassion, but the space of that compassion should be vast enough so that empathy does not turn into uncontainable distress.

As a complement to science, therefore, we must also cultivate a "science of the mind, "or what we can call spirituality. This spirituality is not a luxury but a necessity.

If mystery, the genre, is about finding the answers, then mystery, that elusive yet essential element of fiction, is about finding the questions.

Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

Keep calm and carry on. Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.

It is important to note that going through the motions of answering questions is not critical literacy; rather, critical literacy involves the reader's understanding of the author's intent, bias, and purpose for writing.

Critical literacy focuses on issues of power and promotes reflection, transformation, and action.

Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a woman should or should not do with her body.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

Poetry does not immortalize the person but the virtue for which the person is notable just as Shakespeare's sonnets promise immortality not to the young man but to his beauty and truth.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.