Quotes about Author

Man is the reasoning animal. Such is the claim.

How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!

You know my present way of life. Can you suggest any additions to it, in the way of crime, that will reasonably insure my going to some other place.

A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is—as a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the nobility—dukes and such.

Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather. Nothing breaks up an author's progress like having to stop every few pages to fuss-up the weather. Thus it is plain that persistent intrusions of weather are bad for both reader and author.

Immaculate Conception, that if the Virgin would permit him to

A visitor to Mark Twain's house in Hartford observed mountains of books stacked on the floor. The author apologized for the disorder. You see, he lamented, It is so very difficult to borrow shelves.

And such a luxury to him was this petting of his sorrows, that he could not bear to have any worldly cheeriness or any grating delight intrude upon it; it was too sacred for such contact...

A home without a cat —and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat —may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

Non-violence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.

No, it's this poisonous atmosphere. I suppose it is pretty thick, now that you mention it.