Quotes About Author

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

There's two or three lifestyle pages that I like. I like Hypebeast, and obviously, I follow @BritishGQ.

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

I run our Twitter and Facebook pages, because I feel it's important to maintain a personal relationship with fans.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times.' I was their nightlife correspondent. They paid me fifty bucks an article.

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

I'm in constant pain and have muscle spasms in my left shoulder, shoulder blade and bicep.

The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think it must be different for every author; I haven't done very much of it, and perhaps, in a way, I found it rather painful, which is why I don't really do it very often.

Being a singer, I can easily break facial extremities, but breaking my nose in Luxembourg was extremely painful.

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.

An A's fan made me a Darth Vader helmet but painted in A's colors.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.