Thomas Carlyle Quotes

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

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• I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Author

• What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Hate
  • Better
  • Author

• In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Time
  • Live
  • Character

• I never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Difficult

• I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Book
  • Author
  • Salesman

• I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Me
  • Like
  • Sound

• Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Actor
  • Author
  • Musical

• You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Believe
  • Read

• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Actor

• It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Good
  • Live
  • Success

• I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Write

• My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Daughter
  • Object
  • Flash

• Don't classify me, read me.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Me
  • Read
  • Classify

• When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Reason
  • Author

• There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Present
  • Challenge

• I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Look
  • Read
  • Tabloids

• I think so much of what we learn when we get older is being comfortable in our own skin and learning what looks good, and not being so trend-centric.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Good
  • Learning

• I prefer to fight a bigger guy. I don't like fighting smaller guys; they give me problems with their agility.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • Guy
  • Fighting

• My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I listen to him, and he's a great artist.

  

  Jean-Luc Bilodeau
  • Great
  • Music
  • Amazing

• The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Soul
  • Church
  • Minister

• We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Author
  • Read
  • Object