Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Barker

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

Preston Sturges

I have always wondered why the movie industry was so firmly persuaded that the original author could be of no possible help in the case of a remake or any other change in a work.

Patrick Rothfuss

I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.

Mark McKinnon

The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.

Orhan Pamuk

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

B. F. Skinner

Most, if not all, of these people down there were trying to do the right thing. They were under a lot of pressure, and they took a lot of shortcuts that may have resulted in a lot of waste. And they may have abused their authority to enter into contracts that they were not authorized to do.

Ernst Mayr

Most modern authors failed to distinguish between two very different phenomena: the production of a new taxon, and the production of a new phenotype.

Stephanie Laurens

Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a 'Regency' feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers.

Merck and the authors did everything in a proper scientific manner.

Middleton bus station is extremely impressive and the Authority is committed to building more of its kind throughout Greater Manchester in the years to come.

Who has the authority to do this? Well, the people that make the maps ... you've got to standardize things at some point.

You have to factor in the timing needs of the Housing Authority which were very unique, and the ongoing businesses that were involved in each, so these were not typical land sale transactions.

You can complain to a small bank, but you can't always complain to a big bank. When you talk to people at a small bank, they actually have the authority to make decisions.

Jacqueline Wilson

Winning the Guardian prize is a wonderful reward for any writer. It is such a distinguished award, ... All authors want to know what other authors think of their books and they also like to know what children like, too.

Dan White

It does create some administrative matters for the election authority in setting up these booths and getting staffing for them.

George Clooney

I thought it was a good time to talk about responsibilities of the Fourth Estate and always questioning authority - which at times we shirk.

Julie Kagawa

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.

Donald Kennedy

It is clear the authors are going to need to provide more details as to where the errors lie and how they arose.

It is extremely regrettable. We hope investigation authorities will conduct a thorough probe.

Dan Smith

Maybe I'll find something that I wouldn't find back home. I've been around (the country), and there are some books that are only sold regionally, since their authors are from those areas.

Bob Gaudio

We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but (book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice) and (director) Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater.

Max Cleland

We gave you the authority to go after those who came after us,

William Daley

We are obviously gratified by the unanimous ruling of the Florida Supreme Court, ... The Supreme Court's clear and unambiguous ruling, that the counties are authorized to proceed with the manual recount, is a victory for everyone who wants to see the votes counted fully and fairly here in Florida.

William Shakespeare

Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism.

We haven't been given authority to print it,

We have not had bishops tell us we're treading on the bishops' authority. If they did, we would back off.

Thomas Jefferson

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

Victor LaValle

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

The president believes that he has the authority necessary. But we're willing to work with the Congress if they feel that further codification of that is needed.