Quotes About Author

The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.

Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.

I can't waste more time worrying unless something surfaces that should legitimately cause fear.

I think my biological clock ticking is more worrying for me than getting the right roles.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse oversharer than me.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.

For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.

I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity.

There's nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god.

I dislike religion quite intensely. It's been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.

My father was not prone to worship, but he worshiped Arthur Sulzberger.

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.