#author

Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more. -pg 237 ↗

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

#writers-block #writers-block

I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower? ↗

— Kelly Moran

#happily-ever-after #love #romance-author #writer-quotes #love

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#authority #build #communities #decisions #done

The man whose authority is recent is always stern. ↗

— Aeschylus

#authority #man #recent #stern #whose

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#horrified #i #parents #them #told

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#admire #author #note #piece #read

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#chaos #chooses #chronological #fiction #first

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized. ↗

— James F. Amos

#authorized #combat #died #injuries #killed

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. ↗

— David Amram

#authority #blake #classic #ginsberg #had

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ↗

— Lord Acton

#authority #before #both #country #deny