All Quotes

Author tours used to have a sense of excitement and pleasure, a sense of occasion. I remember stores having a table with wine and food. It was just a real evening.
‐‐ Jane Hamilton

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.
‐‐ Joe Clark

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.
‐‐ Ivan Krastev

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
‐‐ Alain Robert

Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
‐‐ Rupert Everett

Authority forgets a dying king.
‐‐ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
‐‐ Vita Sackville-West

Authority is never without hate.
‐‐ Euripides

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
‐‐ Erich Fromm

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
‐‐ Federica Montseny

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
‐‐ Lech Walesa

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.
‐‐ James Hetfield

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
‐‐ Golda Meir

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
‐‐ Anne Bradstreet

Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
‐‐ Garth Nix

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
‐‐ Henry Williamson

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
‐‐ Malcolm Cowley

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.
‐‐ Liz Williams

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
‐‐ Michael A. Stackpole

Authors can get an attitude of us-against-them when it comes to publishers, but learning how authors and editors can work together taught me to look at my work in a different way and to make that work as solid as possible before it ever goes to the publisher.
‐‐ Tracie Peterson

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
‐‐ Jackie Collins

Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.
‐‐ David Hewson

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
‐‐ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.
‐‐ Helen Oyeyemi

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
‐‐ Robertson Davies

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
‐‐ Edward M. Lerner

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
‐‐ J. A. Konrath

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

Authors should be honored only for their works.
‐‐ John Updike

Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.
‐‐ Brad Thor

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
‐‐ Mickey Spillane

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.
‐‐ Michael A. Stackpole

Authors worry. We worry about writing. Worry about our editors, our agents, our reviews, and our readers. We worry about everything, including all forms of social media including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and personal websites.
‐‐ David Macinnis Gill

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.
‐‐ John Travolta

Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.
‐‐ Adrienne Bailon

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.
‐‐ Claire Danes

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.
‐‐ Adrienne Bailon

Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.
‐‐ Harvey V. Fineberg

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.
‐‐ Harvey V. Fineberg

Autism is a very serious condition.
‐‐ George Osborne

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.
‐‐ Temple Grandin