Quotes About Author

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

I'm kind of a reluctant guru.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.

I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue.

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.

The Clippers are the L.A. Clippers, and they will remain the L.A. Clippers. There is no question about that. I live in Seattle. I will continue to live in Seattle.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.

Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.

Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.