Quotes About Author

People talk about my work ethic sometimes more than my playing ability, which is nice.

We need to work out what kind of systems of governance we should have.

Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.

I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.

Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.

Judaism is the best basis for democracy. The debate between the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai, the constant debate, has been a tradition of ours for thousands of years.

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

I'm always thinking as an outsider, and I'm always mindful of whether a company can be impactful on a global basis. Frankly, I'm paranoid about anyone anywhere who could be a competitive threat.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

People are savvy enough to know that simply a threat of litigation is tantamount to a nice, hefty check.

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.

The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda.

We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program.

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

What I cannot stand in the behaviour of the E.U. with regard to Great Britain is blackmail, constant threat.