Quotes about Author
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
— William Faulkner
It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.
— William Faulkner
A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe. (on Mark Twain)
— William Faulkner
Shreve had a brush, so I didn't have to open the bag any more.
— William Faulkner
I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce.
— William Golding
History is the nothing people write about a nothing.
— William Golding
What is like chemistry? Well. Life. It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...
— William Golding
There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.
— William James
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
— Henry David Thoreau
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
— Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps no word is more overworked nowadays than the word "democracy," and those who shout loudest about it, I think, as a rule, want it least. I am always suspicious of men who speak glibly of democracy.
— Henry Ford
Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.
— Henry Ward Beecher