Quotes About Author

Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.

If you have nothing better to do than praise me for it, then my speech was a failure.

well as the others, namely, the faculty of reason. Reason is unique among the faculties assigned

number of terrorists using it as a base of operations. Over the next few years he became more vocal in his denunciations.

For Genovese, slave owners' moral commitment to slavery was the foundation of a distinctive worldview that explained secession and the creation of the Confederacy.

I can do no better than quote Montaigne: "All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

in modern times nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm

An American's hatred for a fellow American (for Hoover or Roosevelt) is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners.

To attempt to write about Dun Aengus and bring some sort of freshness to it is rather like trying to perform a similar service for Stonehenge: so many people have attempted it before that one is tempted to give up what one is looking at is not only one of the wonders of Ireland, but of the entire Western world.

Fluorescent overhead lighting would be a frightening choice, although acceptable if you keep the switch in the "off" position—or if the bulbs are all burnt out.

Web pages get bogged down in the dispute over whether the reader or author should control the appearance.

This is quite unlikely to happen to Linux

And a few months later, an opinion poll found that 54 percent of the American people wanted the United Nations to become "a world government with power to control the armed forces of all nations, including the United States.

the Sources of Innovation: The Case of Scientific Instruments. Research Policy 23, no. 4: 459-469.

addressed by new institutional forms, such as the user innovation communities that will be studied later in this book. Chapter 4 concludes

In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

You did not pick up this book because you were interested in the neo-pagan revival. You picked it up because, from earliest childhood, you, like the author and the artist, have been haunted by - at times possessed by - the figure of the witch. Les us turn now to her. We will find her inside ourselves.

I didn't want to risk being called all the things women writers (even good women writers) are called: clever, witty, bright, touching, but lacks scope.' I wanted to write about the whole world.

Certes, elle n'était véhiculée que par des femelles, ce qui lui ôtait de la crédibilité mais, dans le même temps, lui garantissait une propagation rapide.

The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life.

Writing, by its nature, can be self-exposing, because at heart we have only our own experiences as our starting points, though in the best novels those experiences are transformed into new and separate truths by the creative power of the imagination.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

The feeling is the less to be combated, because it is utterly unreasonable and utterly regardless of facts or arguments.