Quotes About Author

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

Even though I've got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I'm a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.

My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

I'm not a social animal, and I had a reputation that came before me of being very difficult, of screaming at everybody, so people tended to keep their distance.

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

One of my favourite plants is English lavender but it doesn't have the best reputation for growing in the Highlands.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.

I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a reputation of being an action guy. That's something I probably try to avoid, but I seem to keep making action movies.

My reputation is as a fiscal hawk. At least, I hope that it is.

Malaysia Airlines is a robust airline - it's been around for many years. It has an excellent reputation, both for service and for safety.

Comey is a particularly infuriating character, and I think what he has always been about, from when he was the deputy attorney general under President Bush, is about protecting his own reputation.

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

The Senate has a reputation as quite a collegial place, and I have found that to be true, especially with the women.