Top 1200 Great Author Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and
'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.
Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.
There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.
As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your imagination.
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.
Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.
Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike.
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.
There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.
Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.
Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
A friend asked the author,"If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know?
I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.
For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
If I had to read only one author, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I love the mystical, magical quality of his writing.
My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.
Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
I never admit to wishing I'd written something by another author, but if my name mysteriously appeared on the title page of 'The Guns of August,' I wouldn't complain.
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.
Flip Saunders is a great coach and a great guy. Glen Taylor is the same way. He's a great human being.
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.
Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.
