Quotes About Author

I think my reputation is pretty fair among the drivers. The drivers know what they get when they see me or talk to me - if they get the chance to talk to me, because some of them I just don't talk to because I don't like them, so they should know.

I've been asked whether I was worried about getting a reputation as a firefighter and it doesn't bother me.

For more than 15 years, Mogwai has built a reputation on its monstrous ambitions for rock music.

I'm not bragging, but my reputation among my peers was Bruno was a horse I never got tired.

I have built a very good reputation in India and a lot of Indians respect me.

I am a physical player, no doubt about that, but a dirty player? That's not my reputation.

When a well-known creative person such as me is perceived to have created a knockoff of my own previous work, such a perception is a mortal blow to my reputation as a creative person.

I never thought I'd have to be fighting for my reputation and the poor horse's reputation.

A player can't request on what position he wants to play, and it is the same with the captaincy. One should respect this, there are hierarchies.

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

I think it's a reasonable request to ask: if you're going to write a piece of regulation that affects Montana, I think you should know the difference between Butte and Bozeman.

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote.

I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you do anything.