Humour Author Quotes

You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read. ~ Ken Stark

The first impression of the writings of Mr. J. J. Rousseau received by a knowledgeable reader, who is reading for something more than vanity or to kill time, is that he is encountering a lucidity of mind, a noble impulse of genius and a sensitive soul of such a high level that perhaps never an author of whatever epoch or of whatever people has been able to possess in combination.
The impression that immediately follows is bewilderment over the strange and contradictory opinions, which so oppose those which are in general circulation that one can easily come to the suspicion that the author, by virtue of his extraordinary talent, wishes to show off only the force of his bewitching wit and through the magic of rhetoric make himself something apart who through captivating novelties stands out among all rivals at wit. ~ Immanuel Kant

God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture ... ~ J.I. Packer

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at once seem small, pathetic, manageable." And she whispered to me a great, universal truth: "THE BOWELS ARE GREAT LEVELLERS. ~ Angela Carter

Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best. ~ Yasmine Galenorn

The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons. ~ Henry Highland Garnet

The Historical Point of View, put briefly, means that when a learned man is presented with any statement in an ancient author, the one question he never asks is whether it is true. He asks who influenced the ancient writer, and how far the statement is consistent with what he said in other books, and what phase in the writer's development, or in the general history of thought, it illustrates, and how it affected later writers, and how often it has been misunderstood (specially by the learned man's own colleagues) and what the general course of criticism on it has been for the last ten years, and what is the "present state of the question. ~ C.S. Lewis

To be or not to be wasn't the question meant; it was the secret answer hidden in riddled defense. ~ Michael Anthony Gill-Branion

Don't try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you."
"I hate you, too. ~ Simone Elkeles

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment. ~ C.S. Lewis

The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you. ~ Andy Graham

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over ~ C.S. Lewis

Consider the simple hedgehog, and his neighbor, the opossum ... do they waste their energy trying to throw one another into chasms when they face a common enemy, the winter? No! ~ Ransom Riggs

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. ~ Orson Scott Card

Therefore the Gita is not for those who have no faith. The author makes Krishna say: 'Do not entrust this treasure to him who is without sacrifice, without devotion, without the desire for this teaching and who denies Me. On ~ Mahatma Gandhi

And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art. ~ Neil Gaiman

No matter how old you are, an empty wrapping paper tube is still a light saber. ~ Russ

If you want the Cinderella moments then you have to believe in magick. ~ Stephen Richards

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author. ~ Lloyd Alexander

A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails. ~ William Cowper

'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think it must be different for every author; I haven't done very much of it, and perhaps, in a way, I found it rather painful, which is why I don't really do it very often. ~ Ronald Frame

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. ~ James Dickey

Stop being a slave to your past and you become the master of your future. ~ Stephen Richards

Her core discovery, made with a co-author, Erik M. Conway, was twofold. They reported that dubious tactics had been used over decades to cast doubt on scientific findings relating to subjects like acid rain, the ozone shield, tobacco smoke and climate change. And most surprisingly, in each case, the tactics were employed by the same group of people. ~ Anonymous

If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness. ~ Gottfried Leibniz

I am in a ridiculous humour,' quoth Eugene; 'I am a ridiculous fellow. Everything is ridiculous. Come along! ~ Charles Dickens

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Live, Love and be grateful you are capable of it. ~ Debbie Tosun Kilday

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse. ~ Zane Stumpo

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over. ~ Stephen Richards

But I've had floating heads for slaves,' Zayne answered.
'Their choice to look like that. Some do it for the humour, but it soon wears off.' Penteluck explained. 'Suddenly they realize they can't pick things up and throw them with just a head, and the other spirits usually use floating heads as footballs anyway. ~ Keisha Keenleyside

Christianity on HP - Buy now, Pray later ~ Jonathan Aitken

The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them ~ Douglas Adams

Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a song written by a team, a listener can sense that they aren't hearing an expression of a solitary individual's pain or joy, but that of a virtual conjoined person? Can we tell that an individual singer might actually represent a collective, that he might have multiple identities? Does that make the sentiments expressed more poetically universal? Dan eliminating some portion of the authorial voice make a piece of music more accessible and the singer more empathetic? ~ David Byrne

I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!"
"My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow ... "
"Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig! ~ Terry Pratchett

The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys. ~ C.S. Lewis

Theory of Evolution (Summary)
First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management. ~ Scott Adams

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good. ~ P.G. Wodehouse

As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author. ~ Victoria Hanley