Quotes About Author

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.

If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

I heard one woman say to another in the queue at a book signing: 'I shouldn't be buying this. He's a former Tory MP, you know.'

The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 - doesn't disqualify me from serving on the board of the OfS.

I try not to take much time off for lunch, so I usually end up with a tossed salad from the local deli.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

I've been delivering these little homilies since 1980 - that's 37 years - and altogether, NPR statisticians tell me, my bloviation total is 1,656 commentaries - and I trust you've hung onto every word.

I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

I might be more of a tomboy on the ice, but when it comes to fashion and things like that, I'm a total girlie-girl.

When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and 'mental defectives' as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story.

Twitter was actually the holdout in what has turned out to be my total purge of social media.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

I was studying Psychology when 'Uppena' came my way. I decided to take the plunge because I totally loved the story.