Quotes About Author

Both writing and poker function as economies of status and prestige, and both require a survivalist's iron will.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

They use the term 'ripped from the headlines' for their stories because it sounds a lot better than 'plagiarized from the New York Times because we have no imagination.

Because that's a lie. If she was going to threaten him with anything, it would have been the picture she took of him watching her through his bedroom window and jerking off.

Chevette qui surchauffait. Il arrivait du nord de la Californie

Unless we can turn someone else," Oakland said, "it's as dead as Netter is.

Because Zena is irrational and unreasonable, that's obvious from what she wrote. She's not going to listen to me. But she'd listen to Kim.

Mr. Monk, Please" I whispered. "We're in a church". "We're in hot zone for disease" Mr Monk Said "Someone's got to save these people

wasn't nearly as high-tech as the one at Blackthorn's headquarters.

The Americans went into Pakistan to shoot that camel-fucker. Compared to that, crossing the US-Mexico border to cap him would be as risky as the secretary of defense sending a secretary to Starbucks to get him a latte.

I understand your pain, but you're disclosing too much and making it harder to do our jobs.

don't know how much of this book has become reality in the time between when I finished writing it and when it ended up in your hands. My fear is that a lot of it has . .

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch crime novels. Bosch was an LAPD detective who, over a thirty-year career

It wasn't guilt over taking a life that shook him up and it wasn't because he was afraid of consequences he might face. It was the realization that he was something he wasn't before. Before he was a screenwriter and an author. Now he was also a killer.

curriculum committee were not entirely wrong. Death is not a philosophical issue; it is a literary one. And yet, if philosophy

The other night, the cats were howling. I turned over and convinced myself to go back to sleep because they weren't my patients.

Marcin Chwistek is a physician who specializes in cancer pain management and palliative care.

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

Love is jealous that any should come before her, or after. She would be all in all. If a man will trust her and live in her, he shall know all things.

You couldn't even rent your own apartment in Tokyo, and you make good money. It's fucking 1989! Book 3, p444

Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.

The dark-matter hypothesis is preferred mostly because the only other possibility-that we are wrong about Newton's laws, and by extension general relativity-is too scary to contemplate.

If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.

Comic book should be written as one word. So from now on, I want you to remember that. I never want to see the word comicbook written as two words. They are not funny books. They are not comic books, they are comicbooks! Remember that, or incur my wrath.