Quotes About Author

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

his lips. "I fear, Mama, that I am not. But I am innocent in this case.

I never use the word 'sex' in my novels - that is not what romance is about. It's about love and emotion. All my stories were different but they all had a happy ending - the perfect finish to any romance.

Semicolon, you dolt!

What's all that stuff about torches? I didn't get no torch." "They must have given them to the front of the class," I answered. Little did I realize how right I was.

This tape is supposed to be about love, and I guess the distortions of love. The Love Tape. Do you have any questions you want to ask me?

Judge Sedgwick's daughter, Catharine. She was a spinster and a novelist in the early 1800s and the author of A New England Tale

He hoped she would not provide his family with any of her poems, which tended to use words like nipple.

A cultural value shift is also in order. College-educated people should consciously reconsider their attitudes toward skilled trades and give them the respect they deserve.

Second-hand porn from the looks of it. But any porn in a storm, he thought.

Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life - written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?

Where do you think my new novel is? In the waste basket. I can see myself that it's no good on earth, and when a loving author realizes this, what would be the judgment of a critical public?

Aren't men funny? When they want to pay you the greatest compliment in their power, they naively tell you that you have a masculine mind. There is one compliment, incidentally, that I shall never be paying him. I cannot honestly say that he has a quickness of perception almost feminine.

I came up with a pen and tablet hoping to write an immortal short story, but I've been having a dreadful time with my heroine— I CAN'T make her behave as I want her to behave; so I've abandoned her for the moment, and am writing to you.

It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.

Don't you think it would be interesting if you really could read the story of your life - written perfectly and truthfully by an omniscient author? ... how many could suppress their curiosity sufficiently to escape from reading it, even at the price of having to live without hope and without surprise?

There are such lots of adventures out in the fields! It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them. Ow

The only explanation I can think of is that he is insane, and there are so many insane people in the world that it isn't even interesting.

ceux qui prétendaient n'exposer que des idées. Non : Platon était un auteur de théâtre ; le jeune Hegel avait écrit le plus exaltant des romans d'apprentissage

It was Sunday and, as elsewhere in the world, that day was cursed

I have heard about your gifts myself, Miss Roth,' read the subtitle under Brentford's awkward mumble.

Your mother was a different flavor of cake, Lavie. Lovely, but a little fey, if I may say.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.