Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is no market to discipline the pricing in this industry. What you need to spend the next 18 months doing while you still have the authority is to establish the structural conditions that would let market forces be created,

Lee Child

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

Robert M. Pirsig

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Laurie Halse Anderson

I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'

Laurie Halse Anderson

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

Aristotle

Authority is no source for Truth.

The procedure is that the committee makes its recommendation to the City Council and, of course, the City Council has the final authority on this.

Michael A. Stackpole

The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.

Sam Altman

There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.

John Cullum

I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be.

Chris Brown

I would note, not a single customer of Phillips Roofing ever contacted the authorities with a complaint. The authority contacted them and told them they were victims of a crime.

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.

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.

We now we're not going to get that. But we authorized the departments to spend on that level. That in itself creates a deficit spending.

We'll wait until preliminary results come in and then insist on a vote recount. If the authorities refuse to do so, we'll campaign to ensure that the election is declared unconstitutional.

When you're creating a new taxing authority, it could possibly create instability, of which Tunica has been fortunate not to have over the last 14 years.

We had it on very good authority from figures who ought to know, the governor and a congressman, that those miners were alive, and we reported it. And as soon as we knew otherwise, we reported that too.

We wanted to have a ruling on the ultimate authority to set those standards. What if they (the tribe) decide to change their mind tomorrow?

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.

Larry Alexander

We do not have and never have had the authority to force people to leave their homes.

Dan Bartlett

We do have the legal authority to do what we are doing. We have the necessity to do what we are doing.

Joe Meno

Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.