Authorial Identity Quotes

#1. What are you wearing?" I blurt.
A slow smile spreads over his face, and his gaze flickers to my chest. "I could ask you the same thing.

Katie Delahanty

#2. Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.

Kevin Dutton

#3. My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#4. Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

Jessie Burton

#5. Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?

Thomas Dunn English

#6. I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.

Fernando Pessoa

#7. Can we go somewhere less ... transitory to discuss this? he asked, gesturing around the hallway. I felt like I might burst into tears all over again. Transitory. God, I'd missed him so much.

Rachel Hawkins

#8. I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

Heidi Julavits

#9. It was a world as old as Time, but as new as Creation's hour had left it.

Beryl Markham

#10. His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it.

Cormac McCarthy

#11. Dying in our sleep won't solve anything in the long run, even if a nihilist would argue it's coming down the pike at some point anyway, so we might as well embrace it.

Ann Aguirre

#12. I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#13. Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

William Plomer

#14. Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#15. One of the consequences of such notions as 'entitlements' is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

Thomas Sowell