Quotes About Author

I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

I've been to Oculus a few times to do book signings and things there, and they tell me 'Ready Player One' is, like, required reading for new employees.

Character drives the story, and the story drives the book. I don't think about where the action should go, or how much there should be, until it's required by the characters. When I find myself adding conflict just because I'm afraid that the reader might get bored, I know I've taken a wrong turn somewhere.

Modeling and my films in the South helped groom me for Bollywood and I had the confidence it required.

Whenever I am not filming and not required to travel with work, I spend all my downtime in Scotland.

The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers?

I'll give the director what he wants, but please explain the requirement. If it reaches me, then there's communication.

It seems like the requirements for my characters are that I have to be either mentally ill or disturbed in some way, or I have to be physically beaten. It's in my contract.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.

What I've come to learn with self-publishing is that if you want to provide readers with something of equal quality, it requires the same amount of time and expense.

We don't do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water's at a premium up here. Plus, it'd be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it.

On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.

There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.