Author Quotes

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that’s the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

Well yeah, there’s definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there’s nothing wrong with that.

I’ve often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!