Quotes About Author

I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

The liberal people are the violent people in this country. The Democrat Party are the violent people.

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.

I've actually published two compilations, if only barely. Hire a private detective and possibly you'll be able to locate them. One was called 'Violent Screen,' and the other 'Now Playing at the Valencia.' Bantam and Simon and Schuster.

If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.