Quotes About Author

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.

Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father.

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.