Quotes About Author

I went to study in Spain for a year after school. It was either that or Russian, so I went for the easy option. I love Spain and go quite regularly. I've done a bit of Spanish theatre.

If you're inside the box and a cross is coming, sometimes you need, as we say in Spanish, to smell the intuition, to smell where the cross is going.

Living here in Cambridge, you had to have an identity. It was not enough to be a wife. So I did a Ph.D. in medieval Spanish poetry.

I support Barcelona because I watched the Spanish league.

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

I enjoy stories that can spark a conversation.

I've been having a 20-plus year conversation with black women, starting with 'Girlfriends,' moving through 'The Game,' 'Being Mary Jane,' even 'Sparkle.'

I was a huge fan of this band called Sparks. It was a pretty good inauguration to music, since their music is quite complex.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

When I speak, I speak facts, and if you're getting mad, it's because you know it's the truth.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.

God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He's an author, speaker, and businessman. He's just a great husband and blessing.

I think Senator Marco Rubio was a very good speaker of the House, has been a very good senator.

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

Being speaker has afforded me a unique opportunity to serve parliament, for which I am immensely grateful.

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.