Quotes About Author

The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

I consider it an honor and a privilege to play for the Indianapolis Colts, and I would never want to jeopardize it by doing something stupid.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.

An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Yo, play me with a handshake. Say "What's up, L.L.? Good Luck." That's all. That's all I want. I don't want you to kiss my feet. That ain't necessary. Just give me respect.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.