Quotes about american-author
american-author effective human race weapon
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. Mark Twain
american-author direct english matter poem seems
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. Robert Fitzgerald
american-author authors broad covers good hard questions sf
The hard part about questions like this is that SF covers such a broad spectrum. There are so many authors who are good at so many different things. Sarah Zettel
american-author both increased momentum moral particles social
The increased momentum of American life, both in its particles and its mass, unquestionably has a considerable moral and social value. Herbert Croly
american-author cannot future illiterate
The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn. Alvin Toffler
american-author published writer
The idea that you are a writer because you're published is also a lie. Andrew Vachss
american-author people realized since
You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I've realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn't feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense. Jhumpa Lahiri
american-author choice consequences
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
american-author few history majority oblivion records successes
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
american-author distant future goal ideal imagination imagine men people successful toward women work
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
american-author bicycle communication improve quality rapidly riding skill willing work
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
american-author opposite truth
The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Susan Sontag
american-author
These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything. Jack Vance
american-author hard produce understood work
And of course, it's hard to produce a work at the end of those years of solitude, which may or may not be understood or appreciated. Russell Banks
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The garments, in case you can't place them, are fatigue clothes and arctic field jackets. They are are work clothes, but what am I doing? Dashiell Hammett
american-author critics hundred opinions remember reviewers
The critics and reviewers of a hundred years from now, if they remember any of us at all, may have opinions much different from those of today. Fred Saberhagen
american-author food hate junk mainly spend time turn waste
This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
american-author biggest books learned remember word
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - look. Robert Fulghum
american-author half kinds last week
All kinds of folk, as you can imagine, have had things to say-as you well know-over the last week and a half about what you said. Tavis Smiley
american-author speak
The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
american-author beliefs corner desires inner playing
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
american-author both full insisted kidding money
We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books. Robert Asprin
american-author characters forming good large
Each of my characters comes from somewhere, and where they come from, good or bad, has a large part in forming who they are, and who they can become.
american-author bar basic came everybody including opener quarter turns
The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.
american-author awareness cause desire great respect root
The sense that this world is an illusion, that desire is the root of suffering, the awareness of cause and effect-I have a great respect for all that. David Guterson
american-author dying jamie loved setting situation
The setting of the situation is really cool, and it's very interesting. Jamie is dying to do this; she loved the idea. Can't you just imagine? Kevin Williamson
american-author characters collected comics created reader six
I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics. Michael Chabon
american-author bones concert dance halloween performance short watching
Once, I got an idea for a short story during a Halloween concert while watching someone play the bones during the performance of Dance Macabre.
american-author concern help itself society
After the revolution, when one person injures another, society would concern itself most immediately to give help to the person who has been injured. Barbara Deming
american-author good people prisons reason restraint surely wanting
After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prisons - because they take people and place them under restraint - is this reason: wanting to keep people from harming others.
american-author fathers fun people
It's not about divorce, it's about living. I write about life. People sometimes go. Fathers sometimes leave. It's not all fun and games. Paula Danziger
american-author built castles worry
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau
american-author article hire whether work
Doing a work for hire is not necessarily bad, whether it's an encyclopedia article or a tie-in novel. It's just that you get no royalties.