Quotes About Author

Consciousness ("here" and "now") is not "false and misleading" because of language; consciousness is language, and nothing else, because it is false and misleading.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

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Then de Montfort, resplendent in liturgical robes as well as his own arrogance, walked back to the altar where the mass continued.

Newgate, and perhaps elsewhere.' So saying, he strode out of the house. Athelstan breathed a prayer for patience, made a sign of the cross over himself and followed suit. Cranston, now mounted

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I had said, "I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

It was a tremendous errand that was taking her to Paris, but she hoped in the accomplishing of it to have as little to do with the French people as possible.

In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to mathematics, which was the main thing.

The Beat spokesman, surprisingly, seemed to be satisfied with the ethics that we have inherited.

Rather, it is a story about an important contemporary issue from a particular perspective, one that is

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Against the nationalistic prejudices of the various peoples, the idea of universal egalitarianism could make no headway.

UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head.

the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Those who have witnessed the deep truths of mathematics, Bell wrote, "have experienced something no jellyfish has ever felt".

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was always quoting what some famous somebody

Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text

Writing Well by William Zinsser

My dear, you're so immature!" Isabella replied,"What is it with vampires and arson?

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.