Quotes About Author

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

If I had to write long-form stuff with descriptions of rooms, it would be so boring for me. I like writing dialogue and jokes and situational stuff.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

There's a handful of situations already in two games - some hits I don't need to take - and I'm taking them because I'm stringing out the play.

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

I was born in Japan and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was reading manga, and I read 'Death Note' in real time in Japanese.