Quotes About Author

After a series of jobs that I prefer not to recall, I was hired in the early eighties as fashion editor of 'New York' magazine.

I don't recall Pakistan ever mixing sports with politics.

Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

It is always exciting to receive the scripts before we start on a new series.

Guardiola has helped me so when I receive the ball, I have space.

Any proposal that would usurp or water down the rights of the nominating committee would not be able to receive political support.

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.

I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

I've received some very creepy letters, from some very creepy men.

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

Most importantly I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.

It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards and countless other awards and honours, he was denied the Nobel.