Quotes About Author

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.

We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's probably not even enough, but it's a way forward to get gravity involved. If you have supersymmetry, then there are more of these particles. That would be my favourite outcome.

This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.

In my everyday life I'm a little bit nervous and not particularly brave. I feel like if I can be completely brave in my work then I'm doing something right.

The Canadian audience is very critical, particularly of their own content.

People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

I go down to the dive bar around the corner when I go out. I don't go to the showbiz parties.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

My parents had lots of parties. They were hopelessly bohemian. They were just 18 when they had me.