Quotes About Author

It is illegal to be a member of an organization that is challenging the constitution by armed force.

I love Wingfoot; I'm a member of Wingfoot. It's a great course.

I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.

As a Democratic member of Congress, I have a vote at the Democratic National Convention as a superdelegate.

One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

I run a meme type of account on Twitter; I know what my audience is looking for.

I've always been fascinated by memory and I remember Jonah, when we first started dating, was working on something involving memory. It was early on in our relationship and I was like, damn it, I wanted to do a movie on memory. That was 'Memento.'

When I did 'Memento,' independent film was where all the really good stuff was.

I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.

'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.

Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, 'This Boy's Life,' was a Huck Finn story set in the Eisenhower era - a story so rich and wounding that not even Hollywood could make a bad movie out of it.

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

I did the first proofreading of 'A Brief History of Time,' and when it came to writing my memoir, I consulted many scientific friends so that, contrary to what many critics supposed and were churlish enough to voice, I did actually write the scientific sections myself.

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.

Being a writer is a very difficult craft. Just like learning an instrument, it takes a long time and I couldn't really say I was a writer even after my first memoir.

Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.

When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.