Quotes About Author

"Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it."

Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.