Margery Allingham Quotes
What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.
Margery Allingham
Quotes to Explore
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
J. K. Simmons
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
Gayle Forman
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
M. J. Rose
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
Garth Nix
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
Natsuo Kirino
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I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.
Gabriela Isler
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
Iggy Pop
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The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
Nancy A. Collins
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As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
Karen Hesse
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On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.
Joseph Brodsky
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
Lance Henriksen
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Pete, let us have another game of brag, to recall the days that were so pleasant.
Ulysses S. Grant
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
Yair Lapid
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The clock of doom had struck as fated;the poet, without a sound,let fall his pistol on the ground.
Alexander Pushkin
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What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.
Margery Allingham
