#author

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#bills #commit #congress #country #fiscal

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#authors #editors #many #meet #try

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true! ↗

— David Eagleman

#any #authors #books #bookstore #certainty

Authority is never without hate. ↗

— Euripides

#hate #never #without

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#daughter #time #truth #truth is

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#borrowed #death #everything #his #sanction

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#get #know #lost #love #love stories

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost! ↗

— Henry James

#authorship #fiction #writing #art

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#because #eat #hungry #much #people

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#book #clock #craft #like #making