#thor

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#finish #god #obligated #will

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#comes #destroy #down #everything #head

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. ↗

— John Conyers

#better #citizens #crisis #engage #fact

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#authorities #authority #because #certainly #had

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#author #book #brings #into #much

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#because #instantly #name #offer #peculiar

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#case #dad #else #family #his

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#author #back #everything #goes #grabbed

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#association #authors #canon #ethics #factor

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

#greatest #remains #revolutions #scoundrels