Quotes About Author

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

Unnatural constructs - cities and medical pain management - have always seemed pretty good to me.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can't really do it. It's unnecessary.

I think it's completely unnecessary why people want to know why I dress in a suit at a press conference if I'm at a fight. They should ask questions about my fight, not my suit.

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

The distribution might which Penguin brought to the table and the stature they gave me as an author is unparalleled.

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.

I always make a point of keeping the most pleasant-sounding name for the murderer. As he or she is bound to come to an unpleasant end, it seems the very least the author can do.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion.

I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

President Obama did something that no Democrat's done since Franklin Roosevelt: that is, get a majority vote in Ohio twice. So I don't really buy that his policy is that unpopular.

Hope - I wanted to give to that to the people. When you do that, you have to be willing to be unpopular. It's not the formula for radio songs.

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.