Quotes About Author

To hear that Manchester United were interested was surreal for me because it was my first year in senior football.

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.

I was a production assistant in the post department on 'The Surreal Life.' And it's been reported before that I was an assistant editor on 'The Surreal Life.' That is not true.

'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.

It's been a surreal journey for me since 'Masaan.' The way the industry has accepted me and motivated me has been amazing.

It is a bit surreal for me because I have been a lifelong Birmingham fan, so to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a massive honour.

I've always been an enormous fan of comic books and anything that captures the real in a surreal environment.

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: 'Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B.'

It's surreal, Glasgow. It's got a really black sense of humor and I remember being envious of John Glazer beating me to it on the sci-fi in Glasgow with 'Under the Skin.'

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

But I guess even the knights were vessels to someone. Isn't that the way it worked? But then everyone is always a vessel to someone.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might,if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

I said: Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this. Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story called Goldfish.

On the smooth brown hair was a hat that had been taken from its mother too young.

Hair like steel wool grew far back on his head and gave him a domed brown forehead that might at careless glance seemed a dwelling place for brains.

I was fired. For insubordination. I test very high on insubordination