Quotes About Author

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

I think that there have been a lot of fear-based assertions that feminism is about aggression, and that is incorrect and untrue. Feminism is about equality; that's what it's about.

I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue.

All of their horrific allegations of abuse, threats and purported misconduct by me against Kesha are completely untrue and deeply hurtful.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.

In the '80s, to get a contemporary Scot who was smart, sexy and funny was very unusual.

The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.

It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's rarely a reason to say, 'Hey, we don't need this scene.'

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.

I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.

If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.