#author

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#bulk #code #final #force #importance

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches. ↗

— John Witherspoon

#branches #character #either #executive #general

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us. ↗

— Francis Wright

#arrive #attentive #authorities #dictum #examine

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#authority #being #cannot #obeys #rational

Give a poet a pen ↗

— A. Jarrell Hayes

#author #culture #humor #inspirational #liberal-arts

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing. ↗

— Ren Garcia

#author #inspiration #interview #league-of-elder #literature

One picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunches with too much alcohol, the openings with more, the mobs of people desperately trying to define good taste in such loud voices one can hardly hear oneself giggle, while the shebang is lit by flashes and flares through the paint-stained window, glimmers under the police-locked door, or, if one is taking a rare walk outside that day, by a light suffusing the whole sky, complex as the northern aurora. ↗

— Samuel R. Delany

#authorship #taste #art

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT ↗

— Eddie Johnson

#black-book-author #christian #christian-life #inspiration #motivation

Let me remind you again that when you put a book out there, you are a published author in a space where you are an expert. Your book becomes the ultimate business card, not to mention a source of ongoing revenue. Did someone say “ongoing revenue?”. Who does not need to make some extra money on a regular basis? Realize that this book will take some work to complete once, but thereafter it exists forever – working to bring you royalty checks five, ten, twenty years from now. Money will be consistently flowing into your bank account. If you write a good book that provides real value, then you realistically have a revenue stream which will bring income for decades to come. ↗

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#kytka #make-money-while-you-sleep #ongoing-revenue #passive-income #published-author

I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you wake up and think, awesome, and reach for a pen and paper. ↗

— Logan Kain

#inspiration #muse #nightmares #writer #death