My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter can never hold back the Spring. . . He is the best of all possible audiences, the only Audience to see every scene, the Author who became a Character and heaped every shadow on Himself. The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood.
I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author.
What an author doesn't know could fill a book.
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear. '
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and your heart -- in the opening scenes and never lets go.
I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.
I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.
Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 911, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.
Anita Johnston, Ph. D. , author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, 'That's interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did yesterday. Maybe it's water weight. Maybe it's my outfit. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me. ' I know it's not possible for me to gain a noticeable amount of weight overnight, so I will go no further than that. I move on with my day without skipping a beat-and definitely without missing a meal.
As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of. . . . In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties”. - Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer “Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.