#author

I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read. ↗

— Rodman Philbrick

#book #dreams #hero #heroes #old-man

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do. ↗

— Eveli Acosta

#indie-author #indie-writing #writers #writers-life #writers-on-writing

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject. ↗

— Byron White

#been #classrooms #easing #easy #evident

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films. ↗

— Paul Auster

#anything #author #complicated #film #films

All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?' ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#ask #attack #authority #country #did

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#been #declining #england #expressed #higher

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#authorities #back #books #brilliance #brooks

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates. ↗

— Arleigh Burke

#authority #commander #exceed #fails #his

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#authority #majority #only #people #results

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. ↗

— James J. Corbett

#glory #heard #paid #reward #she