Quotes about Author
The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard. --Disgrace
— JM Coetzee
It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.
— JM Coetzee
At what age , he wonders, did Origen castrate himself? Not the most graceful solution, but then ageing is not a graceful bussines.
— JM Coetzee
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.
— Jack Kerouac
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
— Jack Kerouac
If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
— Jerry Falwell
I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
— Martin Luther
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
— Virginia Woolf
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
— Thomas Jefferson
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.
— Dick Cheney
O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
— John Keats