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Author Quotes

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things Picture Quote #1

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov Picture Quote #1

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn’t understand the horse dealer’s language Picture Quote #1

It’s time to honor the life of an author who openly despised all of us Picture Quote #1

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings Picture Quote #1

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something Picture Quote #1

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A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness Picture Quote #1

As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God Picture Quote #1

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him Picture Quote #1

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I’m walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets Picture Quote #1

Who does not know history’s first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice? Picture Quote #1

Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it’s this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it Picture Quote #1

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Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience Picture Quote #1

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author Picture Quote #1

My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog Picture Quote #1

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery Picture Quote #1

It’s weird being an author because it’s different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because it’s a memoir. So when the reviews come in, they all feel really personal. Some people are just going to hate you no matter what. Personally, I never believe good reviews Picture Quote #1

If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, ‘Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is dead. So I’m writing to you.’ Picture Quote #1

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I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War’s harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service Picture Quote #1

I’m a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision Picture Quote #1

My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it’s still very surreal to me Picture Quote #1

If you’re chained to a computer all day, you’re not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I’ve had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick Picture Quote #1

The author of the extremely successful Twilight series was rejected by 14 different publishers before the 15th picked up Twilight. What would all the tweens do if Bella and Edward hadn’t been brought to life?! Picture Quote #1

We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we’re relying on the story to tell itself and the characters tell it and not (relying on) shock value. It’s a suspenseful drama...The best way I can describe it is Pelican Brief meets Time to Kill Picture Quote #1

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Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs me that we’re going to war with somebody we know absolutely nothing about. Name one Iraqi poet, one Iraqi woman activist, one Iraqi singer. Name one Iraqi novelist. You can’t. And how can you go kill someone you don’t know anything about? Picture Quote #1

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the ‘Paris Review’ and places. They’re all acting. It’s like watching a person in a play Picture Quote #1

I’m an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it’s risky Picture Quote #1

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross Picture Quote #1

If people are going to do post-publication peer review, they need to abide by the same rules as they abide by for pre-publication peer review: not being ad hominem, being respectful, giving the author a chance to respond in a reasonable way Picture Quote #1

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children’s literature and guided me towards adult literature Picture Quote #1

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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things (Author Quotes) I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov (Author Quotes) The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn’t understand the horse dealer’s language (Author Quotes) It’s time to honor the life of an author who openly despised all of us (Author Quotes) All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings (Author Quotes) Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something (Author Quotes) A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness (Author Quotes) As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God (Author Quotes) I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him (Author Quotes) Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I’m walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets (Author Quotes) Who does not know history’s first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice? (Author Quotes) Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it’s this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it (Author Quotes) Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience (Author Quotes) Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author (Author Quotes) My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog (Author Quotes) Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery (Author Quotes) It’s weird being an author because it’s different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because it’s a memoir. So when the reviews come in, they all feel really personal. Some people are just going to hate you no matter what. Personally, I never believe good reviews (Author Quotes) If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, ‘Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is dead. So I’m writing to you.’ (Author Quotes) I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War’s harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service (Author Quotes) I’m a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision (Author Quotes) My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it’s still very surreal to me (Author Quotes) If you’re chained to a computer all day, you’re not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I’ve had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick (Author Quotes) The author of the extremely successful Twilight series was rejected by 14 different publishers before the 15th picked up Twilight. What would all the tweens do if Bella and Edward hadn’t been brought to life?! (Author Quotes) We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we’re relying on the story to tell itself and the characters tell it and not (relying on) shock value. It’s a suspenseful drama...The best way I can describe it is Pelican Brief meets Time to Kill (Author Quotes) Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs me that we’re going to war with somebody we know absolutely nothing about. Name one Iraqi poet, one Iraqi woman activist, one Iraqi singer. Name one Iraqi novelist. You can’t. And how can you go kill someone you don’t know anything about? (Author Quotes) This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the ‘Paris Review’ and places. They’re all acting. It’s like watching a person in a play (Author Quotes) I’m an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it’s risky (Author Quotes) There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. (Author Quotes) If people are going to do post-publication peer review, they need to abide by the same rules as they abide by for pre-publication peer review: not being ad hominem, being respectful, giving the author a chance to respond in a reasonable way. (Author Quotes) Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children’s literature and guided me towards adult literature. (Author Quotes)

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