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«Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.»
Author: Fletcher Knebel
| Keywords:
bleeding, cheeseburger, cuts, pool, promptly, steak tartare, The Author, throat
«If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.»
«Necessity is the author of change»
«The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
author, event, meditated, performance, sincerely, The Author
«The author in his book must be like God in his universe, everywhere present and nowhere visible.»
«The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
homer, Iliad, same name, The Author, The Iliad, the same name
«Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
attempting, author, banished, banishes, banishing, motive, narrative, narratives, Order of, plot, plotting, prosecute, prosecuted, prosecuting, shot, The Author
«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
author, Book One, brushed, brushes, brushing, brush up, colored person, coloring book, colors, derives, deriving, describing, feels, landscape, paint, painting, preferred, reading, The Author, The Pleasure
«Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Reading,
Thinking
| Keywords:
amazed, atrocities, atrocity, author, bandage, bandaged, bandages, cowled, Holy Bible, holy book, phantom, purity, push, reverence, superstition, The Author, The Holy Bible, The Phantom, The Phantom of, throne
«Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditional or invented absurdities»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdities, anonymous, Book of, Book of Moses, fables, Genesis, Moses, stood, take away, The Author, The Strange, traditional, Word of God
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