#thor

Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more! ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#autograph #free #here #hey #more

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#another #authors #comparing #discovered #former

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ↗

— Roman Payne

#books #escape #flame #heroic #heroism

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. ↗

— Anne Moody

#mississippi-authors #age

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet. ↗

— Keith Richards

#both #feet #going #kick #might

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors. ↗

— James Rollins

#book #doors #generally #i #interview

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#arbiter #authority #conflicting #force #men

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. ↗

— Philip Roth

#audacity #authority #beauty #belief #contest

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#doubt #every #face #fear #rarely

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life. ↗

— John Green

#funny #john-green #quote #true #funny