Quotes About Author

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

But, at the end of the day, we want to have a show where we can focus on these individuals and their relationships with each other. That's really what the show is about.

American fans want to meet you, and they wait for that autograph by the stage door. In the UK, it doesn't really happen that much.

There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.

Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on." "Why doesn't it just marry him?" Thomas muttered under his breath. "It sort of did," I said. "My brother the... geosexual?

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.

Countries make policies for themselves. And Donald Trump wants to make - that's his policy.

Why do I have to follow CNN on Twitter? If I want to follow CNN, I can follow them on CNN.

They may want to insist that corporations are people but corporations are certainly not Americans.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.