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.

We know that the Chinese authorities' views on Taiwan and human rights differ from ours,

I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused.

Scott Turow

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.

Paul Fleischman

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

Paul Fleischman

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

Patrick Carman

My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.

Rahul Dravid

We have the option of taking up the issue with the relevant authorities, but keeping the relevance and importance of the series we have decided to let the issue pass and put it to rest.

Today the Supreme Court did not rule that the president has the authority to detain an American citizen on American soil. What they did was delay the inevitable -- that Padilla must be charged with a crime.

Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. Investors need to recognize the costly consequences of sudden reversals in global conditions that could impact the markets.

Anthony Shadid

tribal authority had grown in the wake of the government's fall . . . tribal code stipulated a brutal frontier justice, which had come to fill a lawless void. This code, rigorous and unforgiving, was paramount.

Unlike other legislative proposals, this legislation finally would give the cabinet meaningful enforcement authority.

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,

Teresa Medeiros

I'm especially interested in projects from authors who were always wonderful writers but who got stuck in the midlist mire due to the challenges of traditional publishing.

Teresa Medeiros

When a group of ultra-opinionated, uber-creative romance authors get together, I'm sure you guys can imagine how fast the ideas start flying!

Teresa Medeiros

There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'

Marjorie Scardino

We are making efficiencies and moving to newer authors but established authors are still great cash generators.

Ramez Naam

I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

Sara Sheridan

Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.

The data is brought before the commission. Only the commission has the authority to change the listing of a species,

The defendant's style in this case is to be passive-aggressive. She flouts this court's authority at every opportunity so that it makes this trial somewhat of a farce.

The defendant, as a teacher at the school, was in a position of trust and authority over the children.

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.