Quotes About Author

and window, put the plastic Frosty the Snowman on the blacktop, wired up the

Her violence. Claire, what did you know about violence? My mother's strength? Well she wasn't strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas.

Never let a man stay the night," she told me. "Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater.

The lay reader, who knows only what the biographer tells him, reads it, as he reads every other biography, in a state of bovine equanimity.)

written, preserved, and passed on to us. What an indescribable blessing it is for us

sharing my cozy home with the mice.

For me, lyrics are the most important thing in a song. And if they don't have meaning, I would never sing them - unless and until someone who loves your work asks me to do so.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

Timothy McGee was unlike any character I had ever played before but I had a very clear idea of who he was.

I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's not central to my work, unlike, say, China Mieville, who's very politicised.

Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.

I think that there is a degree of petulance around President Trump and also a degree of sort of blundering incompetence, which is unlike most businesspeople.

The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous.

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.

Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out.

Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.

Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.