Quotes About Author

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.

I decided I like that mode. It's how I think - it's my voice. I like being funny and sad at the same time, or funny and disturbing at the same time. It's my natural voice.

The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.

Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.

SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.

I just saw Twilight on TV, for the first time, a few days ago, and, when my song came on, I was just thinking that is so bazaar that I actually had a song in the movie.

As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head.

I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentines Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.

I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering.

the coarse impudence of Rhett Butler. But, if he possessed

Personally, we could call her 'Garbage O'Hara' for all I care. – in response to editor & friend Lois Cole's criticism of the name Scarlett O'Hara while Gone with the Wind was in its final stages before publication.

Sweet, Dan thought. This is actually poetry I understand right away. And something that will be fun to do! Shakespeare was asking them to dig up his grave.

Why insult the door's purpose by locking it? is a favorite kender expression.

for not even the most powerful runes ever traced upon a body could guard against love's insidious poison.

Physicists don't believe in wizards—a fact that I, being a wizard, find highly insulting. I have taken my revenge, therefore, by refusing to believe in physicists.