Quotes About Author

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

An oblique angle," Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. "Ha! I told you I would work that in!

I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.

The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.

Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.

I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.

I need to get back to work," Patch said. He gave me a once-over that lingered a bit below the hips. "Killer skirt. Deadly legs.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.