Quotes About Author

Obviously I don't have a stylist for everyday stuff, but for a premiere or something usually the studio will hire someone.

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

I don't have a personal stylist, because I don't need one. I just really enjoy meeting designers and picking up clothes.

I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

I've been riding motorcycles since my early 20s, and I loved the hipness of the subculture.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

When I was in college or working, I had the luxury of writing on whatever subject. Now, I'm in the business, I have a deadline and pressures. Sometimes, I have to do things that I am not in the mood for.

Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.