Quotes About Author

I do not chase silly drama for the sake of storylines, though it sometimes seems to find me.

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.

I was always silly in high school. I used to always get in trouble because I was laughing. I've always thought I was funny but never thought I could use it to make money. In 1996, I decided I was going to use my humor to get on TV to make money.

I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.

I never thought people would be remotely interested in my silly little life, but I'm really glad that they are.

To have Hollywood tell me or other women like me that we're not a market that interests them is silly. Good stories work.

I hate the term 'the future of drag.' It's so silly.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

The first Amy Silver book was commissioned, and they were not books that came completely from me. They weren't necessarily the sort of books I read, and although I enjoyed doing them very much, and they were great training, I never felt completely comfortable in that genre.

Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy.

To me, Satyajit Ray is just Manik da. Our relationship dates back to 1958, when he introduced me to the silver screen. I was just 13.

'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

The first sequel thing I wrote was this 'Forever Dawn' thing that will never get out, because it's horrid. But it's a really good outline for 'Breaking Dawn' - it's very similar. I knew what I was doing, which is good, because I think if I hadn't, there might have been a lot of pressure.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.

Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.

I think Barbie and I are very similar in many respects. That's why she made such a great muse for the summer Moschino collection.

I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.