Quotes About Author

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. It's incredibly annoying for us scribblers.

One thing I had learnt, the last person you should ask for a solution is the author. If he knew where he was going, he'd stop dead in his tracks.

and there's even a heavy metal album called The Anthropocene Extinction.

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

And I could trace them directly back to email subscribers.

In her prime, she bore a slight resemblance to Liberace, but in a more masculine way

The fact that both killers arrived on bikes added a peculiarly Dutch flavor to their murders.

She reminded me of a picture in a history book of the executioner who killed on of the kings.

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

I think our only point of contact with the supernatural is our futures, which are sometimes shadowy enough, and occasionally haunt a man with far more terror than any ghost.

Was he some test from the Ministry of Pain? Some awful assessment, and if so, had she passed or failed?

Courtney Hall, cartoonist by disappointment, sat phantom-white where reflex and shock had thrown her against the far wall.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

Every novel has at least three stories. Of course, there's story in its pages. But then there's the story of its writing. And there's also the story of its reaching, or not reaching, the bigger world of its readers.

That guy should be in porn films." Barclay frowned. "Why's that then, Allan?" Ward looked at him. "Tell me, Tam, when did you last see a bigger prick?

Ah, but it was not a nice world this, not a nice world at all. It was an Old Testament land that he found himself in, a land of barbarity and retribution.

If arseholes could fly, this place would be an airport'.

Because of EU rules,' Fox agreed. 'Which are about to end.' 'Bloody Brexit,' Morelli commented. 'Have you noticed any changes during your time in Scotland?' Fox went on. 'Changes?' 'A hardening of attitudes.' 'Racism, you mean? Not especially – it's a bigger issue in England, I think.

Suddenly you've got a twinkle in your eye," Smith noted. "Might be the onset of cataracts," Rebus explained. Then: "Bell's definitely from Glasgow?

Douglas, you wouldn't by any chance know the Korean phrase for 'You have three minutes to surrender,' would you?" "Sampun inae? hangpokhae.

Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.