Quotes About Author

Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.

I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.

My favorite movie villain? Oh, that's easy. Hannibal Lecter.

Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

I've seen unpublished manuscripts where the writer doesn't know they are making fun of the villain - but they are. If you aren't afraid of your villain, how can your hero be afraid?

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.

I'm the super villain of the whole entire UFC.

It's always fun playing a villain, I do have to say.

I want portray a Bond villain. I think I'd give Bond a great run as the villain.

I am not somebody who goes around saying men are superior or that male writers are superior. In fact, I really go out of my way to champion women's work that I think is not getting enough attention. None of that is ever enough. Because a villain is needed. It's like there's no way to make myself not male.

Without Roddy Piper, you can't have an equal good. He was a great villain and so believable. He wasn't playing a part ever.

I do think I have more fun being a villain, definitely. It's just more fun to be a villain.

My dream would be to play the villain in a James Bond movie, or opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like everything exaggerated.

I can be the best Villain. If I make the Villain different and unique to a point where no-one else can do it, that's where people are going to want me.

It was tough to play a villain. But if you need me acting, I can do that for sure.

The Villain wasn't necessarily something I sat down and thought, 'Oh this is going to be my character.' It's most like other great wrestling characters, where it's more of a reflection of my actual character.

That's something that Stephen King always has in his works. There's a human villain who's just as bad, if not worse than the supernatural one.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure out of delving into their minds. There's rarely emptiness, and there is almost always deep intelligence.

My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree.

I love writing villains because I was the big sister of five girls, so I had heavy responsibility growing up. I had to be 'the good girl.'

Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they're flawed and broken somehow. If they're not flawed and broken, then clearly they need to be broken and made flawed. That's what an author does if he or she has any dignity.

Deathstroke,' in my view, is a family drama. It's like the 'Sopranos' with super villains.

Now, with the success of musical comedy like the Mighty Boosh, Flight of the Conchords and Bo Burnham, I feel vindicated.