Quotes About Author

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline.

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

I am absolutely delighted at the prospect of joining a world famous club like Inter.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, "Edgar Allen Poe" I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.