Quotes About Author

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

My style is super versatile and doesn't pertain to any one category. It can be best compared to a mood ring. It is very dependent on the mood I am feeling for the day.

I think I'm a very versatile player, that's how I was at LSU.

I love pineapple. You know, pineapple's great on ham, and just on its own, and in a drink. It's a very versatile fruit.

I'm a pretty athletic big, pretty versatile for how big I am. And I can dribble down the court when I want to put my point guard pants on.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.

I think that's one of the things that intrigues people the most: my defensive versatility. My movement and mobility is something that piques everybody's interest.

The way the NBA is going forward with versatility and everybody being able to play multiple positions, I'll fit right in.

I always tried to pride myself on my versatility - I can't just be the 'iSpy' guy.

When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies. Muhammad said to butcher your enemies.

I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.

I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.

When 'Yuganiki Okkadu,' the Telugu dubbed version of 'Aayirathil Oruvan,' released, I didn't like dubbing for my character. Someone much older had done it, and it didn't have the flavour.