Quotes About Author

I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

I am not in a position to play in action films bashing hundreds of goons with one hand. I feel I am not really fit for high-voltage action films.

It's funny that a lot of the fans of 'Angel' have come over and hung out with me on 'Leverage.' I was so fortunate to have been on that show. It created one of the best fan groups ever. I just have the best fans in the world.

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

You can hear the hunger in my voice on 'Federal 3x.'

I do believe there's a hunger in this country to have a civil conversation and to listen to each other again and that's what we try to do. That's what I try to do.

All the 'Hunger Games' stuff, we had a fantastic production designer, and he built amazing sets.

My brother was a huge fan of 'The Hunger Games' for a couple of years before I got the role, so he was really excited when he heard that I got the role.

I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.

The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they? I felt when I got to the end that I'd lived for years in that set. But oh dearie me I am glad that I'm not in it!

We are taught that corporations have a soul, which is the most terrifying news in the world.

A book itself is a little machine; what is the relation (also measurable) of this literary machine to a war machine, love machine, revolutionary machine, etc.—and an abstract machine that sweeps them along? We have been criticized for overquoting literary authors. But when one writes, the only question is which other machine the literary machine can be plugged into, must be plugged into in order to work.

I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.

She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.

He has a great smile, a cat's smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me.

Danish. I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival.

Should I remove my soul before I come inside?

I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas

It's an insane, insane crime, a lot of it isn't going to make sense. That's why people are so obsessed with these murders. If they made any sense, they wouldn't really be mysteries, right?

So let everyone take sides. Team Nick, Team Amy. Turn it into even more of a game: Sell some fucking T-shirts.

I would never steer a fellow sufferer from the relief of a blackout.

I blame my mother. A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.