Quotes About Author

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.

I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

I'm a very spiritual person. And it affects my work greatly.

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

I had to work with a psychiatrist.

I'm always ready for TV. I don't have to edit my jokes - when you work clean, you can work anywhere.

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.

Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.