“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....”
“There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer does.”
“True creation requires authority and authenticity.”
“How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.”
“Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.”
“...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...”