Quotes About Author

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

My credibility is zero. My wife claims she can go before any judge at any time and have me committed.

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage sector cannot be a limited special program.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

I fainted last night! Luckily I was going to bed at the time so I didn't get hurt.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.

I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.