Quotes About Author

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

The book was a pleasure to write, and I thought it both original and good, though what was original about it was not necessarily good, and what was good about it was not always original.

Less than half an hour passed before he buzzed her from the security gate in the lobby.

Turk tried to study the crowd of Fourths, but the light was behind them and they weren't much more than silhouettes.

I drew on Under a Green Sky and The Medea Hypothesis, by the reliably pessimistic Peter Ward

Thoreau once said, 'Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

We have learned the rules so well that we can now be the ones to break or rewrite them.

The passive-ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

We can call this power intuition, but intuition is nothing more than a sudden and immediate seizing of what is real, without the need for words or formulas.

Boldness and hesitation elicit very different psychological responses in their targets: Hesitation puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them.

Consider Mastery as an invaluable tool in guiding you through this transformative process.

Gratitude, he said, quoting Stalin, is a dog's disease.

As if earthquakes aren't as much a part of living in Campania as hot springs and summer droughts!

I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.

Violence crackled around him in the dry air, like static electricity

church that he guessed must have stood square on this land for at least a thousand years; more likely fifteen hundred. Wrapped

A sex scandal will always draw a crowd, but a sex scandal involving the ruling classes is titillating beyond measure.

As long as war has not begun, there is always hope that it may be prevented, and you know that I am going to work for peace to the last moment. Goodnight.

Excellent. I approve of statesmen who write philosophy. It means they have given up all hope of power.

ideal state might look like: "Who could object to that?" The answer, I

Needless to say, it passed, for what group of voters ever refused to levy a tax on someone else, especially if it benefited themselves?

Fury of truth: fury of righteousness become angelic evil demonic good?

Girls, he reflected, are much odder than dragons. Probably another race entirely.

simply providing teachers with feedback that they either used a strategy or did not use a strategy does little to enhance teacher expertise.