#author

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. ↗

— John Grisham

#beneath #big #big picture #book #card

When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. ↗

— Matt Groening

#dangers #having #important #important lesson #learned

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. ↗

— Matt Groening

#important #important lesson #learned #lesson #sex

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#authorities #backed #black #few #i

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that. ↗

— David Guterson

#author #fight #i #into #persona

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. ↗

— David Guterson

#author #away #beyond #change #figure

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#contributed #convincing #disappointment #fact #language

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#because #direction #good #i #marine

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights. ↗

— William Hague

#democracy #direction #directly #european #european union

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. ↗

— David Halberstam

#book #driving #easier #get #marketing