Quotes About Author

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

Do what, Kim? Lead a normal life? Too late. Way too late.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

I never sent promotional copies to Christian radio stations in my life. It's not what I'm interested in.

I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.