Quotes About Author

Miss Octavia, from the depth of her experience with children, spoke gently. "You will not be able to change her. The child lives in her own particular world, and I'm sure it isn't anything at all like the world you and I live in.

Some dark Presence watching by my bed, The awful image of a nameless dread ?

They saw five men with travelling bags making more noise than a revolution and being harmless.

Laidlaw's mind put on its working clothes.

Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.

Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

We?' She smiled, handing me the carton, picking up her suitcase, waiting for me to open the door wide and let her inside. 'One thing you should know about me, Lyova. I don't cook.

All the aesthetic anarchy of our day is caused by more international artillery than by international paintings.

Art is wood that has fewer branches than science but its roots are deeper than in science.

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I play everybody.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy.

If the article mentions some celebrity-perhaps a recently dead politician-the author will want to mention some pointless detail from her last meeting with that person or the emotions she experienced when learning of the subject's death.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

crouching on his hands and knees, peering through a magnifying glass and pointing out sites where UFOs were going to land.

Sociobiology is not incomprehensible, but it is one of the religions which are obviously false. The

Namely, that for every once that Dawkins says that genes are not purposive, he says a hundred things (many of which I have quoted) which imply that genes are purposive. And

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

Quentin is very organic there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.