Authorial Quotes

#1. I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

John Green

#2. Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.

Chuck Wendig

#3. The biggest thing was that second person allowed me to trick myself into revealing more about myself. It gave me an authorial distance to get closer to the action and emotions, if that makes sense.

Rob Roberge

#4. 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

#5. The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

Martha Beck

#6. 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

#7. Ever since it became theoretically evident that our precious personal identities were just brand-tags for trading crumbs of labour-power on the libidino-economic junk circuit, the vestiges of authorial theatricality have been wearing thinner.

Nick Land

#8. I wonder what it is about a certain novel that ticks the boxes for a reader. I mean, for me, a story can have the most fascinating plot in the world, but if the narrator's voice is dull, then the plot counts for nothing. For me, authorial charm is everything.

Victoria Connelly

#9. But when interpreted correctly - paying attention to the original context, considering the literary genre, thinking through authorial intent - the Bible is never wrong in what it affirms and must never be marginalized as anything less than the last word on everything it teaches.

Kevin DeYoung

#10. Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

Terry Pratchett

#11. For Dickinson as part of a middle-class community anxious about female creativity, self-assertion, self-expression, and egoism, Shakespeare and Stratford may have been emblems appropriate to her own task as a writer: to achieve literary renown but also authorial disappearance.

Paraic Finnerty

#12. A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Clive Thompson

#13. I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book ... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.

Anton Chekhov

#14. Superficial knowledge leads to a bland, monotonous telling. With authorial knowledge we can prepare a feast of pleasures. Or at the very least, add humor.

Robert McKee

#15. My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#16. Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

John Green

#17. They [Americans] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions.

Use little things to break big things, says Saint Paul, describing an essential feature of the psychology of hope.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#18. I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.

Edy Ganem

#19. There should be more of an off-season in the game. I think you need to have less tournaments, more of a break at the end of the year so guys can recover.

Pete Sampras

#20. If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

John P. Marquand

#21. The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

David LaChapelle

#22. 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

#23. His grandfather probably would have said that all men feel fear, but cowardly men deny it.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#24. If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

George Orwell

#25. Your religion is whatever makes you a better human being.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. Every man is the maker of his own fortune

Gertrude Stein

#27. My father used to say that all protagonists were versions of the author who wrote them - even if it meant the author had to acknowledge a side of himself that he did not know existed. It just required courage.

Catherine Lowell

#28. What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.

Colin Wilson

#29. What the feck?" Dani snapped when I answered. "You sleep like the fecking dead up there! I been calling you for five fecking minutes!

Karen Marie Moning

#30. So whether you're up against a wall in your business, or if Facebook is disapproving every ad you create, you've got to think like a winner and find a solution. There's always a way.

Nick Unsworth

#31. You are so vicious. (Tee)
Hence the nickname. (Syd)
You know it's bad when you make me look like Glinda the Good Witch, right? (Tee)
Just call me Elphaba. But don't drop a house on me, 'kay? (Syd)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Alan Dershowitz

#33. The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.

Charles Colson