Quotes About Author

I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.

I'm pretty slow at writing papers.

The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.

Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.

I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.

I'm just a slow writer. I'm picky and careful and fastidious.

All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away.

Both my own process and that of the publishing industry are just too slow to do anything other than play catch-up when it comes to anticipating change.

'Slow Heat in Heaven' was my 'breakout' or 'crossover' book, and I loved the freedom I felt writing it.

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.

Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the hell outta me once in a while.

I'm proud to have associated with a small, yet beautiful film like 'Kaaka Muttai.'

You can be hostile to greed. You can be hostile to income inequality. You can be for raising raises... but you can't be hostile to businesses because 98 percent of businesses are small business people.

I believe we're the party of small business.

Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.

Our small businesses, those in healthcare and the sick should be the only priority of legislation regarding Coronavirus.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

I would rather have a small part in a really great movie than a big one in one that I'm not too psyched about.

I think that much of the success of the Broadway mounting of 'Newsies' was due in no small part to the infectious camaraderie on stage between the boys.

'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God of Small Things.'