Quotes About Author

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

As far as Cheap Trick albums, I like the Red Ant record, which is just called 'Cheap Trick,' from 1997; that's my second-favorite album.

This is the biggest trick of the sort of thing I write: creating fun, powerful stories with tons of interesting stuff going socially and culturally that doesn't overly confuse the reader.

Like 'Ken Park's' director, Larry Clark, Germaine Greer deliberately provokes controversy with the cheapest trick.

I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.

Mentalist is the technical term for what I do and it covers everything from psychic medium through Uri Geller, through to magicians doing tricks with a mental theme.

Going from dialogue-driven 'New Tricks' to a movie like 'The Machine' which has special effects has been brilliant.

It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.

New York is a very tricky city. I find it very noisy. It's a jungle, and it's very stressful at times, but I'm ready for it.

Singing is a tricky business so I sort of had to work at ir. But it's also sort of natural. That's my voice.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.

I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.

I know I've erred in the past putting too much of my social justice sentiments in comics, but hopefully not too much, and I tried to only do that with characters that it made sense with it. These days, with the 'social justice' aspects of the two books I write, 'Catwoman' and 'Katana,' the concerns are more about moral justice.

The Egyptian FA have tried to persuade me to play for them, but all I'm dreaming about is the blue jersey.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.