Quotes About Author

I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was my spectacular mid-life crisis. Some people buy expensive cars, and I wrote a novel.

The recognition and praise from Guardiola, a coach so important to world football, is spectacular.

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

'Spectator Books' is presented by the genial Sam Leith. Leith has a little catch in his delivery that quickly becomes addictive. It's things like this that give podcasts their charm.

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

The notion that there's finite spectrum is mostly wrong.

I think, one day, I might actually try writing a bunch of - a collection of essays maybe on the funnier side of the spectrum. I don't know. But it's fun to have, frankly, Twitter as kind of an outlet. When you're writing about dark things all day, it's kind of fun to have fun.

I will never speculate on data. I always need to see data.

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

I'm not going to speculate about legislation that I haven't seen before.

My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future.

I'm rereading Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation.' I love it, and she's just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it's mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble.

In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

The great thing about the 'Fast and Furious' world is everything is up for speculation. Yes, anything is a possibility.

As this case has progressed, the evidence that the prosecution has claimed exists against me has been proven less and less and less. And all that has happened is that they've filled these holes with speculation.

There is speculation that I was arrested in Pakistan, but that's not true.

One thing I would always say is speculation is always flattering because if someone is talking about you or linking you to a job then it's something that is flattering.

I have 100% confidence in Rob Pelinka running our basketball operations. I've always had confidence in Rob. Whatever the speculation is out there, we don't need the outside media to validate what we do.

Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.