Quotes About Author

I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

The thing that's always struck me about Coach Marinelli's defenses is how fast and aggressive they play.

I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning.

I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.

The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other.

I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.