Quotes About Author

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

If I'm writing books, I'm a 'New York Times' bestseller - how do I do it all? I don't know.

I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.

I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.

Intellectually, Stephen was a towering giant. Bodily, he was as helpless as a newborn. The functions I fulfilled were all maternal rather than marital.

At Newcastle, I was playing in the No 10 position but also in midfield as a left winger.

I want to entertain, I want Newcastle United that is the best it can possibly be.

I'm delighted and incredibly proud to be appointed as head coach of Newcastle United.

Since Newcastle I've had a fantastic time at Blackburn and then here, at West Ham.

Newcastle has a massive fan base and a great history so it is amazing to be here.

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

Of course, I'm not saying that news interviews can't be adversarial. Sometimes, you have to be nasty Columbo or we'd never get to the truth.

I'm constantly looking for humour in the news. The funniest things are in the minutiae.

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.

Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.

I just get my news from the Internet.

The right-wingness of Fox is basically the news channel. I don't think the broadcast network has any politics at all. It's sub-political at best.

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.

The Evening Standard is a great newspaper staffed by great people.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.