Author Quotes
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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.
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An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.
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Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
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As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
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I'm the author of several books, including children's books.
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I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
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There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
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I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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A photo app is a utility. It's like comparing 'Twitter' to Microsoft Word. If you want to be an author, you're not always going to constrain yourself to 140 characters.
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It is because in John’s Gospel we are not hearing two voices—the voice of Jesus and the voice of the narrator. We are hearing one voice. The author is speaking for himself and he is speaking for Jesus. These are not Jesus’s words; they are John’s words placed on Jesus’s lips.
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I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.
