Quotes About Author

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.

We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion - has grown progressively obscured in the minds of many of our contemporaries.

I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I wish I did. Most of the time I read documents, and that's not going to help your writing. But I'm a very logical writer, and you can't get out of me. Once I've nailed you, you're finished.

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

Obama is a fine, very impressive person. He really is. Unfortunately, everything that he is doing in economics is exactly wrong. He is a crappy president.

Unfortunately, you cannot let your neck be kind of cut as a gesture for your neighbor, even if it's a good neighbor.

We unfortunately did foreclose on certain people in the military.

Unfortunately, I was like a lot of my own students, who don't really want criticism, just encouragement.

Unfortunately, Bruce Rauner is more committed to playing politics than fighting for Illinois women and families.

The Hollywood machine is unfamiliar to me and unfriendly.

I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?

I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila.

When I left the Seekers it was because I was unhappy. I wouldn't have left if I'd been happy.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

I'm extremely unhappy with the projection of 'Tum' as a hot film. It's demeaning not just to me but to the producer and director.

I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.