Quotes About Author

The impact of punitive government measures is long-lasting and widens inequality and social discord.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampunk story, 'The Ape-box Affair,' is a sort of melange of Stevenson and P.G. Wodehouse.

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.

I have read H.P. Lovecraft, and I understand why he has influenced so much of horror writing. But because of his history, I wasn't a huge fan.

I'm lucky to have played for some great managers who can be positive influences on how I work at Watford.