Quotes About Author

I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.

Sometimes I'll hike in the afternoon if I have meetings with New York in the morning.

Maybe because I've worked in the BBC for so long I am completely allergic to meetings.

Kristina is a model. It's that old rock star meets model cliche.

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

Am I a ranting maniac on Twitter? Yeah, but I'm also a pretty mellow, married guy who's into hiking and walking his dog.

I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

At an early age, I understood music... the rhyme schemes, melodies and harmonies.

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied.

A lot of people love men that rock; I love men that love a good melody and a good harmony.

I love 'Shadow' the most! The melody is awesome, and I really like how the lyrics express genuine emotions.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

I love the sound of a Fender Rhodes or James Jamerson-style bass lines that are their own melody, and live drums and Moogs.

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

The only club I have ever belonged to is the James Bond fan club. Member since 1979.

I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

I'm probably the only member of the 'Bachelor' cast without an agent!