Quotes About Author

I used to actually work in a comic book stores in New York.

I'm not sitting in my office stroking a white cat... I find it very frustrating: what benefit have I got of closing stores?

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn't work that way. People have to see online promotions, see piles of your book in stores, and you have to make sure the guy recommends it!

I got two stores, two streetwear stores, at home. Have to tend to those. Play Cloths. Have to tend to that business.

People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.

I want to find stories that humanize homosexual experience and that's what Peter Gill does well.

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

He is scary as the butcher, but you will not meet a lovelier, more interesting guy than Danny Huston. His stories leave me spellbound. I adore him.

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

If I can help create empathy and balance in society, I'm going to do whatever I can to tell stories that subconsciously create that.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

The Lion King is one of my favorite stories ever.

Digital is a fantastic platform to tell your stories.

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.