Quotes About Author

I believe that if we dispense with mythologies that have distracted us from the reality we find ourselves in, we can make capitalism work for most of us rather than for only a relative handful.

the only antidote for big lies is big truth—told relentlessly and powerfully. You must be armed with it.

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

Anyway, the above must serve as my explanation and apology for treating Thomas More, a Christian Saint, as a hero of selfhood.

Rose Goodhall is simply the sweetest, most down to Earth model I've ever had the joy of working with on any project.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do."

Shooting. Put oneself into a state of intense ignorance and curiosity, and yet see things in advance.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature.

Solemn is sleep, O sea, When thou art nigh to the bed: And Death is terror to me, When thou dost talk of the dead.

The evening darkens over After a day so bright, The windcapt waves discover That wild will be the night.

if the poet becomes what-is, then what-is (and no one else) becomes the author of the poem.

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

A myth is a hypothesis about the personality of reality itself and not the personalities of individual persons, character types, or nations.