Quotes About Author

Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.

The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find odd little personal experiences that you hope are universal or think might be universal.

I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did not go with my strip.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that secrets are toxic and break up families.

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.

I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil.

If you want to be universally loved, forget a career in broadcasting. You can't compliment a team without necessarily dissing their opponent.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

To costume yourself in the way that you fantasize, to make that a reality, and then to go right into the universe looking like an exceptional being takes a lot of courage.

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.

By the time I finished the first series, 'Marvel Universe vs. Punisher,' I knew that there was a lot more story to tell.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.