Quotes About Author

I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

Colin Cowherd? I never met him; I don't know him.

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting.

By trade I am a metal fabricator, so I have a degree in custom automotive fabrication.

A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.

I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.

At first we had a scary image of metal and it was hard to approach other artists.

I'm a die-hard Metallica fan, I know the guys.

I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.

Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go through as humans.

That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

I would say weightlifting - this methodical act that results in physical and mental feelings of strength, capability, accomplishment - has absolutely had a massive ripple effect on my life.

I'm a very methodical cook - it appeals to the logical side of my brain.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

I feel now, as we did then, that for an effective approach to the problem of nucleic acid biosynthesis, it was essential to understand the biosynthesis of the simple nucleotides and the coenzymes and to have these concepts and methodology well in hand.

Epigenetics is very important. We are keeping a close eye on iPS cells and other genetic methods of reprogramming the epigenome.

I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I live by impulse. I'm totally ill-suited to writing history books.

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

My favourite hangouts are the Mexican restaurant Crazy Homies and the Electric Cinema, both in Notting Hill.