Quotes About Author

But reassurance can be the cruelest antidote to anxiety. Our rosy predictions both leave the anxious unprepared for the worst.

a book provides for a distillation of our sporadic mind, a record of its most vital manifestations, a concentration of inspired moments that might originally have arisen across a multitude of years and been separated by extended stretches of bovine gazing. To meet an author whose books one has enjoyed must, in this view, necessarily be a disappointment... because such a meeting can only reveal a person as he exists within, and finds himself subject to, the limitations of time.

The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.

However, the immediacy with which aesthetic judgments arise should not fool us into assuming that their origins are entirely natural or their verdicts unalterable.

The only way to defend language is to attack it....' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure adequate expression, broken a range of rules laid down by previous writers.

It is surprising to find that Proust held some extremely caustic views about friendship- in fact, to find that he had an unusually limited conception of the value of his, or indeed anyone's friendships.

The important books should be those that leave us wondering, with relief and gratitude, how the author could possibly have known so much about our lives.

we've also been forced to learn something rather more surprising: no one is particularly interested.

The nature of this particular daydream is foreign, unfamiliar and frankly not a little disgusting to me, but I'm interested in hearing about it nonetheless, because more critical than my relative comfort is my ability to cope with who you are.

And so the skiing holiday (and much of my life generally) proceeded: anticipation in the morning, anxiety in the actuality, and pleasant memories in the evening.

Objects mimic in material dimension what we require in a psychological one

we shouldn't be surprised if this kind of stoicism is of no interest whatsoever to the news, for it has sound commercial incentives for overemphasizing our vulnerability.

Art compensates us for certain inborn weaknesses, in this case of the mind rather than the body, weaknesses that we can refer to as psychological frailties

One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation.

Unlike today's ideologues, whom I would call single-minded if mind came into it at all, I have no fear of the state.

Voiko olla suurempaa iloa kuin törmätä kirjailijaan, jonka teoksesta pitää, ja sitten huomata ettei hän ole kirjoittanut vain yhtä tai kahta kirjaa vaan yli kymmenen?

it came to her that for some reason Norman was sulking. Behaviour she had seldom come across except in children and the occasional cabinet minister.

Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.

programmers believe that their own imperatives of construction simplicity and ease of acquisition—of prewritten source code in their case—take precedence over any suggestions made by others.

You know what I'm talking about. Mother was monitoring his body. You were monitoring Mother.

And since he's written 126 novels and counting, I think that we can safely say Mr. Foster is one hell of an entertainer.

meal was sensitized: any nonprogrammed disruption

Poe readied himself. The Resistance will not be intimidated by you. As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I.

To date, however, the boy had proved himself relentlessly ordinary.