A Quotes
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“An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.”
“An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.”
Source: The journals of Bronson Alcott
“An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.”
Source: On becoming a writer
“An author would not compose a book that does not contain a purpose in the context of entire text. Therefore, readers should take advantage to read a fiction or nonfiction book that can educate them about a specific topic that is relevant to real life situations.”
“An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.”
“An author's characters do what he wants them to do.”
“An author's first duty is to let down his country.”
“An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.”
“An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.”
Source: The Monk ... Printed Verbatim from the First London Edition
“An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.”
Source: The Writer and the World: Essays
“An autobiography encouraging the reader to like the author is not a true autobiography. No one is likable from the inside out.”
Source: Verity
“an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.”
“An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.”
Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood
“An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.”
“An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.”
“An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.”
“An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.”
“An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.”
“An Autobiography is the truest of all books,for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell (though I didn't use that figure)--the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.”
“an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.”
Source: Crossing the Line: Being the Second Volume of Autobiography
“An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.”
“An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.”
“An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.”
“An automobile piston should be round; but this phrase means nothing unless there is a way to measure the roundness of a particular piston.”
“An autumn breeze through the open window of your smile makes everything in the world feel just right.”
“An autumn forest is such a place that once entered you never look for the exit!”
“An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.”
“An autumn night - don’t think your life didn’t matter.”
“An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.”
“An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.”
“An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse -- and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.”
“An average doctor saves a body, a good doctor saves a being.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.”
“An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.”
“An average man dreams of average accomplishments and can only achieve what is in line with his mindset.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.”
“An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.”
“An average man thinks that courage is about taking advantage of others, but an upstanding man knows the added advantage of being meaningful in people's lives.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.”
Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
“An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.”
“An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.”
“An average trader loses money, so in this profession, you need to be way above average to make consistent money trading the markets.”
Source: Trading Course: How to Become a Consistently Winning Trader
“An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.”
“An avid reader, I never missed a book by Judy Blume or Agatha Christie. They both remain two of my favorite authors. If I could have combined these ladies into one person, that's who I would have wanted to be when I grew up.”
“An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.”
Source: Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991
“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.”
Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including