Quotes About Author

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.

I'm pro-union and utterly hope that Scotland stays within the United Kingdom.

Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they remain utterly timeless for me. I cannot recommend them enough.

But I was an utterly hopeless politician and I worked out that I would be much better suited to making money and running businesses than the compromise that is politics.

John McCain is simply a man of considerable character, poor guy. He is utterly bereft of cultural cachet.

It must be every critic's dream when you're at something utterly intolerable to actually get up and intervene and make it stop.

The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.

VA is a unique national resource that is worth saving, and I am committed to doing just that.

It's too bad we can't take VA leadership and export it and give it to some of our adversaries around the planet. Let them suffer under VA's leadership.

We have more women serving in the military than any time in our nation's history, and yet the VA has not done a pivot to look at women's healthcare issues.

What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.

I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States - on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Not many people know that.

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'

For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining.

A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

We know Zika's not going to go on vacation.

I love Niecy Nash. I would take a vacation with the lady. She is just delightful.

My 'Playboy' cover shoot experience was nothing short of a paid luxury vacation.

I was very proud of the 'Jersey Shore: Family Vacation' that was airing on TV.