#author

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ↗

— David Viscott

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. ↗

— Voltaire

#conceal #employ #injustice #men #only

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#any #authors #bags #corner #degrees

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#cameras #classrooms #greater #parents #substitute

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority. ↗

— Theodore White

#away #being #bodies #break #cease

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#discovers #exploration #future #him #his

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#down #drops #every #grade #ladder

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good. ↗

— James Wolcott

#baby #democrats #easy #emotional #feel