Quotes About Author

Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.

Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.

It's sort of like a reminder [click my teeth together] to remember it, but I don't think it works. I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

What we need is a strong defense, but right now there is zero chance of an invasion by another country and right now we have more firepower than all other countries put together.

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn't done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.

When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before.