Quotes About Author

Okay, kids,' Dad said, 'the civilians are revolting. We better skedaddle.

When I brought up some career possibilities, she told me that the only thing she wanted to do was help fight the Mormon cults that had kidnapped thousands of people in Utah.

I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.

The truth is that I can't put down my pen: I think I'm going to have the Nausea and I feel as though I'm delaying it while writing. So I write whatever comes into my mind.

I am not listening to him any more, but he must have strayed from his original subject because I suddenly hear: . . . to have, as you, the good fortune of writing a book. I have to say something. Good fortune, I say, dubiously. He mistakes the sense of my answer and rapidly corrects himself: Monsieur, I should have said: 'merit.

I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.

I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.

I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.