Author Quotes
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Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
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God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
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It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
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But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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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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I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.
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Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
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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 think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.
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It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.
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Who is the coolest author ever? Is it the guy who wrote Fablehaven? If not, what’s the matter with you?
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I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
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I hear background noise, but I haven't heard any specific legislation or author.
