Quotes About Author

You see in moments of duress not only the darkest parts of human nature but also the brightest, the most noble.

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?

Nobody ever asks me about my lyrics.

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.

'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow.

It's possible to be hard-boiled and not noir, just as it's possible to be noir and not hard-boiled. And it is possible to be both. People debate endlessly what is hard-boiled and what is noir.

I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.

One reviewer dubbed my first book, 'Getting Rid of Matthew,' 'chick noir,' and another called it 'anti chick lit,' both of which I loved.

It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.

It's the worst noise in the world: me analyzing the reasons for making a podcast about U2.

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.

I have the right credentials to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.

Subject is very important. If you're going to write non-fiction the style means nothing or very little. The content justifies the effort you need to put into the writing itself.

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.