Quotes About Author

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me.

I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.

Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.

The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.

However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.

I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.

Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.

Specifically with directors I'd worked with, and even some that I haven't, they were all incredibly generous with me, having really long conversations about what they felt was useful as tips.

There are things that neuroscience is useful for in terms of understanding behavior, but there are also things it is not all that useful for, like understanding the nuances of our reactions to poetry.

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

I have planted my flag in my comedy being useful for social change.

Fear is good and useful when it's deployed on the side of common sense.

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.

Football is a game of opinions, and some people have a great opinion of me, and some people probably think I'm absolutely useless.

You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions.

I think women, especially, are bored of blokes being useless.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.

Some of the scripts I hear are completely useless. Sometimes, they're copies of very bad Hollywood films.

The typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty: it's someone who has a cash flow problem.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

It's true that I am not an active social media user.

Path does not spam users. Invites on Path are never sent without a user's consent - any allegations to the contrary are false.