authors

I'll just say right here that whoever thought up the idea of paying dead white authors by the word should have a special place in hell with the rest of the sadists.

In the timeless and universal manner of authors conversing in public places, he did not fail to mention its title, __olume III of Principia Mathematica entitled, The System of the World, available shortly, where books are sold.

Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person.

As an author the question I get asked the most is, __hy do you write?_ My knee jerk response is, __ecause I love it,_ which is true, but not the whole truth. So here is my revised response to that question; __ write for the thirteen year old me who hated reading and craved something different than the boring literature I was forced to read for school. I write to see something I want to read exist in the world. I write because it becomes unbearable to hold so many stories in my head without a way to express them, but most importantly, I write to be true to myself.

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley)

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

The only thing in life that's really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants--whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they're no good, I put it down. Maybe it's good after 100 pages, but I can't wait. The author lost.

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...

I am reading Henry James_ and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

Life is like a dream, when you wake up,you only have memories.

Well, let me try again,' he said. 'If it be true, and no doubt it is, that the proper study of mankind is man, it is also true that man is best studied in the books that he has written about himself; and all books, whatever their subject matter, are in essence autobiographical... Wherefore, it is clear - or is it? - that writers of books are what I have called them, the most fascinating people in the world.

Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more about one of modern America__ truly significant artistic and cultural movements. It helps us to acknowledge the complexity of African American life at a time when the nation__ culture was taking on a recognizable shape, when race was becoming less of a crushing burden and more of a challenge to progressive people and their ideals, and when cities and their inhabitants symbolized the end of the past and the seductiveness of the new.

I'm not stupid and I'm not brainy. I just lack execution sometimes. I'm more of a "I should have said that" kind of gal. But there will be other days when I'll have a comback that'll knock ya flat and you knows it brov! ha-ha!