Quotes About Author

USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.

I went to USC and got my first break writing for a kids' show called 'Pepper Ann.'

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it.

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

I have always used my platform to speak about positivity in social media when it comes to pageantry because it is one of the main problems I have experienced.

There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.

When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator's Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.

Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

I hope I contribute something useful to the human family. That's my intention. And I hope that it's useful to people.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.

I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.