Quotes About Author

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

This result was very convenient for Marxist–Leninist dialectical materialism

Unless we have a totalitarian world order, someone will design improved humans somewhere.

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply trying to understand the mind of God.

You cannot entertain a Norwegian, you cannot bore a German, and you cannot educate an American or a chimpanzee.

Common sense is a very poor guide to scientific insight for it represents cultural prejudice more often than it reflects the native honesty of a small boy before the naked emperor.

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

I tend to scare myself.

Do you drink? Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say Fear, itself. Then you have a small imagination. Roland and Eddie

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

Nora Roberts is cool.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?

The medical definition of miracle is misdiagnosis.

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin Beam.