Books Quote by Pseudonymous Bosch Download Open image “Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)” — Pseudonymous Bosch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Dictator Way
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.” — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out. — Huey Long Copy Share Image
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
“If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of… — Terena Scott Copy Share Image
*Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
I ate him," said the homunculus, biting into his sausage. The kids couldn't hide their looks of horror. He smiled, sausage juice running down… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
