Quotes About Author

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.

Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

'Purampokku' was one of those rare films made just like it was narrated.

When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.

Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both.

Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.

I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.

I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot.

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

I rarely read children's books.

But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.

I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.