Famous quotes by Authors

"I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real"

Marguerite Young, Author

"I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me"

Marguerite Young, Author

"Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"The highest qualities of character... Must be earned"

Lyman Abbott, Author

"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"

Marguerite Young, Author

"If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized"

Marguerite Young, Author

"I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer"

Marguerite Young, Author

"A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns"

Marguerite Young, Author

"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow"

Marguerite Young, Author

"Patience is passion tamed"

Lyman Abbott, Author

"It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity"

Lyman Abbott, Author

"Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice"

Lyman Abbott, Author

"I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?"

Evan Hunter, Author

"I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online"

Evan Hunter, Author

"Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine"

John Shirley, Author

"Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?"

Evan Hunter, Author

"It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops"

Evan Hunter, Author

"I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons, all under the age of 3, would come running in and out of the room every minute"

Evan Hunter, Author

"Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene!"

Evan Hunter, Author

"Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own"

William Greider, Author

"I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony Award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones"

Evan Hunter, Author

"I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth"

Evan Hunter, Author

"I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me"

Evan Hunter, Author

"A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week"

Evan Hunter, Author

"The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations"

William Greider, Author

"In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like"

William Greider, Author

"Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100"

William Greider, Author

"They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'!"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

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