Quotes About Author

I study history. I study the game. I study the NBA and the team I'm working for very, very closely.

Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.

I will say there have been occasional times - not when I'm playing, but when I'm studying - that I have found a little bit of alcohol has been good for the creative process.

I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of writing by naturalists. I've been studying the genre for years.

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.

I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember.

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.

I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.

Ann Radcliffe was an early influence; I devoured her books while I should have been studying for my GCSEs.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

I was always the 'boring' type. I was into the stats and spending hours and hours and hours studying them. I was always more a manager than a player.

I'm actually studying hospitality and I have a concentration in event planning and design. I study mostly around event management and a little bit of business.

At 19, while studying at St Xavier's College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my first job as a copywriter. It was at a company called the Script Shop.

You have a good side and bad side, real side. Then I put that on in the ring. My character, my personality in the ring, came from heel stuff.

My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.