Quotes About Author

My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she's a world-class singer, also.

We're all in agreement that our children deserve a world-class education.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy.

In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.

'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.

Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.

I had worked in TV prior to working on 'Game of Thrones' - 'Game of Thrones' is far more cinematic than any other television show that I had done before, and so I feel that the worlds of TV and film are most definitely merging as one.

I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details in my books come from those days.

Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.