Quotes About Author

It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.

Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.

I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.

The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.

After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the strangers who I am totally fascinated with.

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.