Quotes About Author

I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

People tell me I have the best job in the world, which is true, but I also work with some of the best people in the world.

Just keep focusing on the work that you're doing. Focus on what's in front of you today. And don't read the papers, just go campaign. Just do your thing. Talk to people directly

One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.

To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.