Quotes About Author

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

I don't usually leave the house with makeup on. I wear it only for special occasions; I'm too lazy to get up in the morning before school and get glam.

I have been to Goa before on innumerable occasions. I have shot at Fort Aguada in Goa too.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

The book was sloppily written in many parts (the words came too quickly and too easily) and there was hardly a noun in any sentence that was not holding hands with the nearest and most commonly available adjective — scalding coffee and tremulous fear are the sorts of thing you will find throughout. Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing.

Mediocrities flock to any movement which will indulge their self-pity and their self-righteousness, for without a Movement the mediocrity is on the slide into terminal melancholia.

Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.

I will now make an apology, although I will do my best not to repeat it. (Good readers do not read fiction, after all, to put up with the author's regrets.) I will say that having read the best and worst of novels for many years, which is, to remind you, part of a good devil's education, I know by now that not even a loyal reader can stay true to an author who is ready to leave his narrative for an apparently unrelated expedition.

It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation).

Finally he said, "I like everything that wild Irish maniac, J. P. Donleavy, ever wrote." It wasn't so much a discussion as a sharing of taste. He also liked The Agony and the Ecstasy and Lust for Life by Irving Stone.

I will now make an apology, although I will do my best not to repeat it. (Good readers do not read fiction, after all, to put up with the author's regrets.)

By God, was Gary like Harry Truman, mediocrity enlarged by history?

One's own literary work was the only answer to the war in Vietnam.

It is on this bleak scene that a phenomenon has appeared: the American existentialist—the hipster.

YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

He was suffering from self-love, a chief cure for which is the practice of love for others.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

as his self-defenses seemed to indicate. When the younger employee