Quotes About Author

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

I'm that tech writer who gets on stage and plays funny tech songs. I wouldn't want that to be all I'm known for, but it's a bit of a differentiator.

If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.

I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

I'd do a really tasteful Playboy shoot, but I'd want at least 700,000 for it.

I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because thats the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take.

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.

Sometimes I comment, but you have to be careful because if you do it for one, everybody wants you to say something.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.

A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case, but to enter the mystery.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'

I can't blame Angela Merkel for saying she wants a strong euro.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.

If Mr. Trump gets precisely the policies he says he wants, then the economy will suffer a recession.

The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.