Quotes About Author

One of the things I love about Joel and Ethan Coen's movies is that there is this element of the ethereal and the mythic that they play with.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.

A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.

Most men cannot write good sex. I tried one time years ago and showed it to my wife, and she felt like laughing.

Comics are so one-dimensional, especially 'Archie.'

Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming from bluegrass, where one conducts oneself rhythmically, it seemed like such a different approach, and at that point the difference that I was noticing was a real turn off to me.

We need ongoing indigenous products, like 'Blood,' to sell on the international market.

I am the Internet guy. But the reason the 'Onion News Empire' was such an easy decision to make is I so trust that side of the fence now.

I've been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.

I don't stalk handsome actors online. That would be inappropriate.

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words of love. Hate will not save us. Only love.

Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading.

A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only one way to get it. You're going to actually have to be a reader.

If the script is boring when I read it, I am sure it would be boring onscreen, too.

I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.