Quotes About Author

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

The storyline has always been of paramount importance to me. The subject and climax of 'Phillauri' touched my heart.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

I went on a diet after 'Daawat-e-Ishq.' It was tough to resist eating because we were in Lucknow and Hyderabad, and the food over there is amazing.

Huggable lamb that I am, people tell me I'm a tough negotiator.

I'm not sure if it's easier to address tough themes through humor, but I do think it's more fun and makes such themes easier to digest for the reader.

Gabriel Gonzaga is a very solid fighter, and I've seen some of his fights. He's a tough guy.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

The American Dream Dusty Rhodes, rest his soul, he was hard as hell on me. He was tougher on me than anybody.

I don't care what anyone says - there's no tougher place to play than New York with the media and the fans who know and love the game. It's a tough place to play.

Writing for children is the toughest thing.

I campaigned on signing the toughest abortion bill in the country.

The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.

In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

I loved my Communications class. The toughest one I had was Oceanography only because I didn't have too much interest in the oceans.

The U.K. has some of the toughest legislation on hate crime in the world, and it is there to keep us all safe.