Quotes About Author

I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.

It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.

There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.

I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that power, and containing it within the bounds of the Constitution.

I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.

It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going to the bad. Well, yes, it has, and it is an author's job to point it out.

I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don't think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

I'm no one's pet, and I intend to be an independent voice in the U.S. Senate.

All writers have their own pet commandments.

My pet hate, with customers, is those that think it's all about wallets.

My first ever interview for 'Blue Peter' was a film with JK Rowling.

Even though Peter Criss is a pretty simple player, he played with great feel and made the music get up and go.

Few have had the good fortune I have had. My start in the business was with people like Peter Brooks and Michael Redgrave. Also, growing up as I did with a father in the military taught me to accept discipline and responsibility.

Out of all of the Spider-People, including Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy has the most over-developed sense of responsibility.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.