Quotes About Author

I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with.

Have some more wine, Smith, you're not making sense.

Goodnight gentle readers, sleep; sweet music to your dreams.

He was a tall, gangly, shy satirist who mumbled to you with his head turned away and always said funny things.

Comparisons are odious, Smith

I'm like a thinner younger Major Hoople who really had a small taste of early success but then lost it and came home to live off his mother and sister but goes on writing and acting like an author

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence.

When you write letters to me, try not to be sophomoric and moribund about your criticisms of Jean et son weltanschauung [and his worldview.] A little more finesse, please, or if possible, a dash of humor.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional.

He had discovered, in the course of his reading, two schools of fiction. One treated of man as a god, ignoring his earthly origin; the other treated of man as a clod, ignoring his heavensent dreams and divine possibilities.

it should serve as a warning to those rash political theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes. Capitalism

That the work of a drinker who had no intention of stopping drinking should become a major propaganda piece in the campaign for Prohibition is surely one of the ironies in the history of alcohol.

Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.

I read all the books for 'Twilight.'

That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies.

I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.

I did Robert Pattinson's first live interview for 'Twilight' and he was so nervous.

I actually wasn't much of a book reader at all before the 'Twilight' series. They just draw you in, and people love them. They're terrific books.

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.