Authorial Intrusion Quotes

#1. You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.

Mary J. Miller

#2. A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#3. I don't think I'd volunteer to have a dick that big. How the hell did he get it to fit in his pants?
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Yeah, and here I thought he was figuratively a horse's ass. Who would have ever thought he actually had anatomical similarities?

Adrienne Wilder

#4. There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.

Hans Christian Andersen

#5. Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

Ray Bradbury

#6. I try not to agonize over my lyrics, though, because that can come across in them. Some lyrics come more easily than others and some you have to spend a lot of time on, but I think you have to watch that you don't take the life out of them by worrying too much.

Jane Siberry

#7. we can certainly understand and identify with one. And the more vivid that one, the better.

Amy Cuddy

#8. The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

Sam Snead

#9. What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

John Bunyan