Quotes About Author

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.

What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.

National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'

I traveled to Berlin promoting something a few years back, and Berlin is absolutely my favorite city I've ever been to. I want desperately to film something there.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's opinions, you have to ask for them. What you read might surprise you.

Sanzo to Gojyo: And give me my gun back. I don't want your idiocy getting all over it.