Author Quotes

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread

The fiction I’ve written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time.

This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.

I realized I had some cultural capital to spend, and I wanted to use it to introduce another author who might be considered a risk by conventional publishers. Michael Noll was at the top of my list.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

I’m dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray.

I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.