Quotes About Author

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other respectable literary venue. And that's okay. I can live with that.

My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.

British boxing fans are amazing, and the O2 is one of the best venues in the world.

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it.

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

I enjoy being slept on. It's like being on the verge of a cult movement. But making the underground-to-aboveground transition is cool.

My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.

I literally shaped a lot of the land in Vermont in different ways.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never heard before, and it must have its own particular intelligence. By 'voice,' I don't mean vernacular. It has to have its own particular history and world that it inhabits.

I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?

One of the interesting things about the 'Decameron' itself was it was written in the Florentine dialect as opposed to the Latin vernacular - and that was mainly to have it be a piece of literature for the people as supposed to some kind of highfalutin' canon.

Honestly, it's been amazing to be a part of this journey on 'Veronica Mars.'

In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.

I love 'Gossip Girl'! I still miss 'Veronica Mars,' though.

I advise all my novel students to write in the company of 'Veronica Mars.'

One reason I relate to 'Veronica Mars' fans is because I can totally geek out about shows. I mean, I write Vince Gilligan fan mail every year.

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.