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Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader. — Morris Gleitzman

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. — Glen Cook

The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes. — Maggie Young

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth. — Tayari Jones

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being. — Anthony M. Esolen

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly. — Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame. — Unknown Author 724

The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable. — Wolfgang Pauli

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

Who learns most from a good book is the author. — Jose Bergamin

Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. — Susannah Mansfield

With each daunting step, the armor I'd always worn like a protective cloak unraveled, and my footing faltered. — E.R. Pierce

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of. — Umberto Eco

In the end of the day you make the rules. Base your Author Platform around the things you love to do, love to write about, and love to share. — Matthew Turner

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein — Mark Rubinstein

Words--Midnight coined and daily spent. . .writer of the dream.
--Jim Ross Author, Rays: Wherever They Touch — Jim Ross

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors. — Neil Postman

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim. — Elie Wiesel

Evil is not the opposite of love; evil
is the absence of love." by Robert W. Chapman. Author of A Certain Fall. — Robert W. Chapman

The wondrous God is the author of souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You should author the narration of your life and organization. If you don't, someone will, and you may not like it. — Assegid Habtewold

A company author bombs from the sky like the Air Force. A self-published author wins the battle by foot. — Judah Lee Davis

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. — R. Scott Bakker

One thing I had learnt, the last person you should ask for a solution is the author. If he knew where he was going, he'd stop dead in his tracks. — Iain Sinclair

Loving someone is not tough but the real courage is to be with that person forever. — Anuj Tiwari

It's very hard to get one publisher to accept an author going over to the other author's company to collaborate. — Marcia Muller

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book. — Aditi Dufare

The word 'believe' is an important factor in you securing your success. — Stephen Richards

In the sexual meditation, the boundaries interlock for the moment. However, outside the bedroom the boundaries must stay separate.-Author Serena Jade — Serena Jade

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need. — Stella Adler

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you. — Paul Travis

What gives meaning to your life is rooted in your definition of the author of life. — Felix Wantang

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions. — Edith Wharton

Films always make everyone else rich save the author. — Susan Hill

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham. — Flannery O'Connor

Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field. — Harsha Bhogle

It is impossible to know the laws of life without knowing its Author and Founder. — Sunday Adelaja

When you open a book, you open the mind of the author. — Teni Abegunde

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

The author's tribute is heartfelt ... — Monty Roberts

Life is the greatest chance that has been given to all of us. So how do you choose to live your life? You've got a pen. Write it down. — Kcat Yarza

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT — Eddie Johnson

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. — William Strunk Jr.

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth. — Jennifer Senior

When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. — Chris Hadfield

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. — Tara Bray Smith

I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus. — Randy Travis

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals. — S.A. Tawks

Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author. — Josiah Bartlett

Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ... — Susan Sontag

Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you. — Stephen Richards

Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights. — Barbara Rosenblat

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth. — Alberto Villoldo

Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable. — Carew Papritz

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world. — Shaun Hick

Anytime you can escape to an adventure do it, what have you got to lose? Just keep turning the page. — Mira Monroe

By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. — Hailey Giblin

The best writing reflects the author's ideas and communicates them clearly to the reader. — Steve Dunham

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton

Live each day as if it were the first day of marriage and the last day of vacation. — Unknown Author 47

You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling. — Andrew Lennon

A man who worships the Creator is a book signed by the Author. — Robert Mullin

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end. — Brett Armstrong

If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers. — Michelle M. Pillow

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Nature is a volume of which God is the author. — William Harvey

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. — Andre Maurois

In the search for an author [of Hebrews] we are virtually stumbling over Priscilla. No longer is it feasible to pretend she isn't there. — Ruth Hoppin

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity. — Richelle E. Goodrich

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ... — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Call me the author. — Joan Didion

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. — Plato

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet
it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. — Joss Whedon

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce. — Fennel Hudson

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author. — James Jeffrey Roche

As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live. — Carew Papritz

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Once one feels justified, one is often bereft of conscience. — Ryan Tyler Palmer

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. — Nicolas Chamfort

Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author. — Steve Maraboli

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own
that is, for his age
so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist. — Vladimir Nabokov

Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them. — Molly Evangeline

The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten. — Roman Payne

If you keep looking back, you'll never be able to move forward. You're the only one who can stop yourself from your own success. — B.A. Gabrielle

a true relantionship is when you can tell each other anything & everything no secrey no lies... — The Gentle Author

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer. — Richard Wisniewski

Your mind can grasp intellectual ideas, but it is in the FEELING where the transformation takes place. — Stephen Richards

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it. — Thomas Paine

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. — Max Frisch

I'll be your friend until you find a better one. — Carla H. Krueger

Watching TV helps me come up with a lot of new ideas. Psychological and mystery help me the most because of how thought provoking they are! — B.A. Gabrielle

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth. — Samuel Johnson

Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge. — Gayle Letherby

Oh, to be the author of prison letters. It's a young girl's dream come true. — Jenny B. Jones

You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it. — Nikki Rowe

The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say. — Herman Melville