Quotes About Author

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.

I bring to the table core Democratic values and can articulate them very strongly. I'm not someone who tries to claim the middle.

The style of direction in 'Room,' maybe a little bit like 'Spotlight,' tries to be hidden.

I would say it's human nature to be ignorant and go straight to war, but 'Sense8' tries to illuminate the positive side of humanity.

I just can't take anyone who tries to justify a comment using foul language.

A lot of fighters, Cruz got under their skin. The guy's a dork and he tries to be a bully.

People only ever cook nine meals in rotation, so we put a survey out to see what people wanted to eat. People said they loved a Bakewell tart and a trifle, so we've put them together, and now a recipe for Bakewell trifle exists.

One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.

I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.

'Borne,' in a weird way, even though it's a totally different universe, picks up where the 'Southern Reach Trilogy' leaves off, because it's post-apocalyptic.

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.

'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

'The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while 'The Age of the Five' was about a conflict between continents.

With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on reality.

I love those trilogy movies, like 'Lord of the Rings.'

After the Grisha Trilogy, I think I was a little burned out on 'chosen one' narratives and I wanted to take a big step away from that.

Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.

I've been a huge fan of all things paranormal my whole life. For me, it was always a question of when, not if, I was going to write a paranormal series. I dipped my toe in the genre by incorporating a mystical curse into the 'MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy.'

I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.