Quotes About Admiration

Anyone can enjoy a wrestling match, but it's how you feel about that person that takes it to another level.

I've always loved Don Cheadle and Jeffery Wright and even Sam Jackson.

I talked once with Harrison Ford about Wright's houses and how impressive they are.

I love Robin Wright so much. She's one of my favorite actresses; she's incredibly powerful.

I love Robin Wright. Kristin Wiig! I love those two women.

I loved playing for Coach Ambrose, and I definitely love playing for Coach Wright.

I grew up around a lot of the major leaguers, guys like David Wright, Pedro Martinez, Jose Reyes, and I think that's what really helped me. You see the routine they get, the humility they have.

I love Chicago. I love Wrigley Field.

For years, I've admired wrist tattoos, but I was always afraid that they would hurt - I'm kind of a weenie about pain. In fact, it's why I wear so many bracelets on my left wrist. The bracelets represented the words or phrases I'd want to get tattooed but didn't have the courage to.

I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

I firmly believe that there is no better thriller writer than Harlan Coben.

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

I've been a fan of Yoshida Akimi's manga for a long time; she's one of a few women's manga writers that I always read.

Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

Writers should be respected.

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.