Quotes About Author

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.

I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so too be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.

I can only display what I've been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn't deserve this heritage.

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.