Quotes About Author

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed.

As a business you should probably be examining, hey, is this the type of message we want to send?

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.

I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.

Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want to sleep with an intern.

I'm not afraid of writing about sensitive subjects, but I want to be careful how I do so and I know not all readers will think I have been, of course.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.

Tanith has a sword.' said Valkyrie. 'I want a stick.' 'I'll get you a stick for Christmas