Quotes About Author

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

I just learned that, even though in a past life, I was a model, too.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

I think politics are a part of life, so I have no resistance to it, but it's not something I set out to do.

I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

Since the publication of the hardcover edition of this book in April 1994, a number of questions have been raised about the reality of the alien abduction phenomenon and the evidential basis for crediting the experiencers' accounts of what has happened to them.

The abduction phenomenon also raises interesting questions about the nature of memory and the control of consciousness. As discussed in chapter 1, prevalence or incidence

would only point out that as a clinician, I have spent countless hours trying to find alternate explanations that would not require the major shift in my worldview that I have had to face.

Writing as if she were receiving information from another troubled and perplexed source or voice that was speaking to her, Jerry described the beauty of the Brazilian

Or they hope that I will find some sort of psychiatric explanation that can be treated so that the experiences can be stopped.

Psychiatric examinations and numerous psychological tests have failed to reveal forms of mental illness that could, conceivably, explain the abduction phenomenon (Mack 1995; Bloecher, Clamar, and Hopkins 1985; Parnell and Sprinkle 1990; Rodeghier, Goodpastor, and Blatterbauer 1991; Zimmer 1984; Spanos, Cross, Dickson, and DeBreuil 1993).

The UFO abduction phenomenon does not speak directly to this issue. It does not, cannot, "save" us.

For me the future role that the hybrid offspring are being prepared to play represents one of the most puzzling aspects of the entire abduction phenomenon.