Quotes About Author

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

It is vital that our work be grounded in the evidence and thus accepted by the public.

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

I don't discuss works in progress.

I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.