Quotes About Author

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

I had the chance to work with Michael Jackson who was as brilliant as they come.

I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

I met BSB at a benefit gig we were both doing, and they are really humble, nice guys - and very hard working

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think.

Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.

I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

To pursue kingdom understanding of what makes its lifestyle work on earth ask specific kingdom questions