Quotes About Author

I like the Mid Antrim circuit, and if anyone were to ask me to show them a typical Irish road surface, I would take them to the Mid Antrim. It is awesome.

Cassoulet requires a few ingredients you won't find in the typical supermarket.

Tea Party sympathizers are more conservative on abortion policy than typical Republicans.

Working in network sitcom arenas, whenever you decide to depart from the norm and tell a story that's not typical, I think you're always a little bit nervous.

Madhuri has certain gestures which are typical of her. Make-up and the right hairdo might make me look similar to her, but my performance needs to be up to the mark.

It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home.

I hate typing but I love to write manually.

Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It's part of us, of our European identity.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.

I actually gave Mike Tyson his 'Iron Mike' nickname.

Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.

Mike Tyson and Kool G Rap had lisps - lisps always been cool!

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

We are able to create incredible set-pieces here in the US that TV shows often don't have the resources to create in the UK.