Quotes About Author

I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

God doesn't want to give Israel a king, because God knows, being the rather observant deity God is, that the Israelites will become like all other nations: they will worship their king and not God.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, 'Hey man, we just want to be 'content neutral.'

As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.

America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

What are you doing here?" [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies," I said. "Want some? The Samoas are terrific." (Max II to Max)

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.