#author

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#child #distinguished #genius #i #i think

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#chances #characters #gifted #greater #mind

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#author #bad #ever #issue #just

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#feel #i #i can #many #other

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here? ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#authorities #been #book #called #constitution

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#authoritative #community #expert #global #illiteracy

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. ↗

— George Orwell

#dickens #stealing #those #well #who

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#attention #attract #authority #events #himself

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#basis #components #currently #defense #department

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#bleeds #contagion #death #hell #lets