Quotes About Author

I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

I hated 'The Lovely Bones'. I thought her vision of Heaven was amazingly uninspired and very depressing. The book was just tedious.

The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.

For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than the fact that I am right-handed. It's a fact of my biography, but it's uninteresting.

Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

When I was at Oxford, I was a Thatcher child; I was fascinated by politics and I spent three years being obnoxious in the Oxford Union.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music.

George Saunders's 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is a hands-down masterpiece - the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the genius of this author is a perfect union.

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.