Quotes About Author

Also, there is a way I like to lead my life, which would adhere to certain norms. Anything that goes beyond that is not my purview.

I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.

North Carolinians are hard-working common-sense, decent and stubbornly independent people.

While I'm driving north, I'm already thinking about kippers - it's worth the journey just to have kippers for breakfast on Saturday.

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

Outside of North America, best football? Is Samoa North America? Probably Samoa. I'd say Samoa. Germany's certainly up there.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.

Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.

North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.

Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

Part of my job is to make sure the Northeast is part of our defense industrial base, and New Jersey has always played a role.

But I am Northern myself, and there is a certain rhythm of Northern speech that is very comical: that combination of the choice of language and the speech rhythm, which in itself is very funny.

I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.

In California, especially Northern California, the fans really cheer for me.

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.

The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the Northeast corridor is culture.

I'm a bit biased, as I married a Norwegian, but Norway is an incredible country.

It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like being scorned; I like people looking down their noses at us a little bit... It gives us a little chip on our shoulder.

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It's easy to idolize the past, before those things were prevalent.

I knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.