Quotes About Author

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

We are a better Nation and the world is a safer place because of Ronald Reagan.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

Governor Huckabee has the communication skills of Ronald Reagan and a common sense business approach to government.

I'm a real left-winger. I fancy Jeremy Corbyn!

Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.

No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.

But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic.

I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much.

All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.

In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason.

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.

I believe any fiction writer is inspired by real life.

If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.

I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that you're really not. Real love is different.