American Author Quotes

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.

When Spirit comes into your life, It will uplift you and give you an understanding into the problems and the joys of your daily life. It gives direction, and for many people this is the first time that they have found it.

The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed pornography online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept? Such a house could even be the whole world.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

Free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

God is just, he said.
Just what? I asked.
Just watching.

Michael Kurland

We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.

Maria V. Snyder

Just remember, I am not going anywhere, he said, still watching her lips. And if you ever try to hide from me, I will not believe you are dead. I will find you. Count on it.

Diana Pharaoh Francis

Everybody rich and happy. She smiled. Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.

I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.

God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.

Robert Jeffress

Picking the right name for the baby is beset with difficulties.... whatever name you choose, the baby, some years hence, will hate it anyway, and decide to have his friends call him Slats or Rocky...

Robert Paul Smith

A round of golf partakes of the journey, and the journey is one of the central myths and signs of Western Man. It is also a round: it always leads back to the place you started from.

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.