Quotes About Author

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And that's by design; that's the kind of approach I take to it.

I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think anyone else does either.

And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others' goods, and people will love you.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

I have no desire to carry a movie.

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

If you spent your weekends in the clubs, you could see the change in the eyes of the people. They became merciless, in a way, in their desire to be entertained.