Quotes About Author

She'd trade places with Tessa. She'd always had a secret crush on Julian.

I was testing a hypothesis. But it was right, and then I had a unicorn to deal with. You can't just say, 'Thank you so much, go away now' to a unicorn, the way you can with atomic particles.

My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feel true to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is.

My first intervention is to say, when your baby is born, just don't jump on your kid at night," Cohen says, "Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don't automatically respond, even from birth.

But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.

My only ally was a snotty alien dinosaur who I hadn't seen in days.

He had the nervous, self-deprecating air of a man with enough money to have a bad conscience about it. His

I never heard of a pretty librarian in my life," Paula declared.

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.

The wife of bad conduct?constantly pleased with quarrelling?she is known by wise men to be cruel Old Age in the form of a wife.

Marx reproduced medieval and Reformation millenarian expectations in his utopia of a classless, stateless society.

Only a hopeless madman - or a chess genius - could live in such chaos.

Sorcery has been called Magic: but Magic is Wisdom, and there is no wisdom in Sorcery

truth cannot "be reduced to aphorism or formulas. It is something alive and unpronounceable. Story creates an atmosphere in which [truth] becomes discernible as a pattern."3

It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.

Le romancier est le seul menteur qui ne tait pas le fait qu'il ment.

Lobby for Decency Declares Brain an Erogenous Zone, Demands Mandatory Hatting.

Some have argued that because of its atypicality, Twilight Struggle is not a "real" wargame, but we will leave such jesuitical distinctions to the message boards.

The cat had left as they entered, sauntering out towards the kitchens with the air of one whose neighbourhood had been invaded by undesirables.

Socrates padded across the chamber to sit down beside Alys, gazing airily into the distance, his soft ears flicking at the little sounds she made dealing with her wedge of pie.

he rose from his knees, drew the candles more conveniently, and sat down to study his finds, supervised by the cat.

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.

Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.