Quotes About Author

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.

People who say the system works work for the system.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.

It's such a hard and scary position to be in...G-Dragon hyung is under so much pressure and there's a lot of hard work involved.

If there are people who like the work you've done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that's really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.

I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.

Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.