Quotes About Author

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

The song 'Stick'? That needed to be chunky and sexy. It's human. It's human to be the girl in 'Stick' and feel spicy as heck.

Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since I never could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'm hedging my bets and working both sides of the street.

I enjoy the medium of film, and I think I understand it well, and I like working with directors, so yeah, I think I'll stick with this.

If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.

My darling father gave me some decent getaway sticks - my legs are OK.

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like little children.

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around those 'kid people.'

The idea of a physical stigma is quite appealing. When I wrote the book of 'Bodies,' there was a lot of that in the book about how there are physical manifestations of psychological problems - I think it's described as 'Narrativizing The Body.'

I think because we were a girl group, there was such a stigma, so we had to engage with fans - social media was such a big part of our journey.

There's something really charming about a character that is fundamentally flawed and does some pretty despicable things, but yet you still kind of love him.

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

Comedy is such a frivolous world that it can make you addicted to the frivolity, and then a lot of people don't settle down and are still in that non-specific age maturity bracket.

I've played a lot of these characters that aren't particularly pleasant and pretty powerful, bad people, and one thing I've discovered is that there's a real stillness to these guys.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

There is a broad consensus, not only in the United States but in most of the world, that if you are in an economic downturn, you need to stimulate. Germany seems to be an exception.