Quotes About Author

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

If anything, I feel a bit of pressure to write about less disenfranchised people, because I'd probably sell more books that way and would've already had some hot property that I could've sold to Hollywood.

When I was very young, I sold the rights to my work... through 2000.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

Though it sold very well, I hated 'The Edge.'

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

I have never run for political office, but every night I am reaching out to millions of Americans on the radio and I am deeply concerned that the middle class of the United States is being sold out to multi-national corporations with a globalist agenda.

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.

When I was teaching at Cambridge, I sold handbags on the market.

I sold 'Hattie Big Sky' without an agent but quickly realized a writing career required an agent.

Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

'The Rap Year Book' is really great. Shea Serrano wrote it, and it became this huge phenomenon where he sold out everywhere and made the bestseller list just on the strength of his fans on Twitter wanting him to succeed.

I write songs with melodies, which have sold for decades.

The very first soldier's funeral protest that I went to was in Omaha, Neb.

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Young Republicans are a very, very important constituency. Along with little old ladies, they provide the foot soldiers for the Republican Party.