Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Sternfeld

With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'

Dav Pilkey

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

Bryan Burrough

There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.

Steve Sheinkin

One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet a lot of great children's and YA authors at events all over the country. So I figured it might be fun to interview some of them and turn the interviews into short online comics.

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

Gary Hamel

I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

Jane Birkin

I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

We have shared our view on transparency with the European Commission and the U.K. 's Financial Services Authority.

We have seen indications that someone is trying this technique out. Basically, we have seen code that is stuffing a key in the registry with a huge length. Yet, the author still doesn't have it working.

This sends a strong signal that the FTC is on the beat. They have the authority to help establish some (legal) precedents that will help steer the market toward better practices.

This was a legal grow for people who are authorized to receive medical cannabis, and it was not an excessive grow,

Michael O'Brien

There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols in the series, but the author misappropriates them, mutates them, and integrates them into a supposedly larger and broader system where evil symbols are dominant.

When you have an author of the caliber of Bernard Cornwell, one of the world's top historical novelist, it's very gratifying to publish him on a global basis giving him the prominence he deserves. We expect this important deal, in conjunction with the new TV mini-series, will bring him even greater success around the world.

This ruling upholds California's authority to enforce tough restrictions on handing out free cigarettes, particularly in places where children are present.

This resolution is a joke, ... because the evidence shows that Pinochet is the author of the 57 homicides and 18 kidnappings and today they are looking for some way to protect him, to reduce the charges.

Jeff Bezos

We think this is a win, win, win for publishers, authors and customers.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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.

Patrick Fitzgerald

We also note that it is our understanding that Mr. Libby testified that he was authorized to disclose information about the NIE to the press by his superiors.

Though I am the author of this system, one should know that I do nothing and I am eternal.

We are working around the clock with the Iraqi authorities and foreign missions to win the release of all the hostages.

Jeff Kinney

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.

Javier Solana

We will continue to support the Palestinian Authority until the new government is formed and on that we are trying to find the necessary resources.

Arthur Phillips

When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.