Quotes About Author

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.

He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.

But be careful: if your intuition says that your story sucks, make sure it really is your intuition and not your mother.

they got to be so conceited because they were Catholics.

I'm not suggesting that you want to be an author who tells a story in order to teach a moral or deliver a message. If you have a message, as Samuel Goldwyn said, send a telegram.

You wouldn't be a writer if reading hadn't enriched your soul more than other pursuits.

thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.

shared a belief that we were spiritual beings having human experiences, not vice versa, and that spirit, love, and truth were actual reality

Ramoth's huge golden wedge-shaped head swiveled around as the sleepy dragon instinctively sought her Wyermate.

Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts.

He yelped, ducked with an apprentice's well-developed instinct, and went pelting back the way he'd come.

It is the case with too many books, I fear. Old leather, fine paper are all very well, but it is the words that matter. They are the wealth of the mind and the heart.

had a curious sensation of respect for him, and realized

She was also fonder of reading and study than was attractive in a woman, and not free of the intellectual arrogance of one to whom thought comes easily.

ruins." A flush spread up

Fear was the most universal stripper of disguise and the self-protection of contrived attitudes

A miracle," he said dryly. "Not at all," she replied with equally straight-faced aridity. "A woman would suffice.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

You're a perfect devil, Lestat! That's what you are! You are the devil himself!

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.