Quotes About Author

Maybe you accidentally bought this thinking it was the Malala book.

I skipped out of the Fox lot, threw my Keds back on, resisted the temptation to go over to the Simpsons building and take selfies with the Bart Simpson topiary,

I am a confident writer, a hothead, and have a very thin skin for any criticism. This charming combination of personality traits makes me an argument machine on our staff.

One stipulation to my borrowing your clothes is that you have to have worn the item at least once before I borrow it. I'm not a monster.

Will (now renamed "Trouble Don't Pick Up" in my phone) came to L.A. with the president and asked me to dinner.

It was a sure sign of guilt: giving too much information about my cover story was

Isn't that supposed to be my line?" he asked ruefully.

I was glad for the additional income and, whenever possible, used the exposure to express my thoughts about the geiko system.

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.

his book Thresholds of the Mind, Bill Harris examines

The receptionist xeroxed my insurance card while explaining that chromotherapy isn't covered by insurance.

My voice was low and formal. I sounded like a wooden father from the 1800s.

Is this the saying people say: 'A poor man's name is pronounced for his master's sake.' It is I who speak to you, and you invoke the high steward!

I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.

This is Miss Suzy's house", said the captain, drawing his sword. "Will you go peaceably, or must we fight?

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

See, this CD is in stores. The only way I could get my last CD into a store was to take one in there and leave it. "Sir, you forgot this!" "No, I did not. That is for 'sale'. Please alphabetize 'it'."

Writers often find themselves staring at the page or screen with the awful feeling that it sounds "all wrong." For whom am I writing? is the question that can help determine the appropriateness of your tone of voice.

Heaven is also on earth because it is the Garden of Eden.

Oz had been reading No Easy Day, a memoir by a former SEAL Team Six member about the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.

Within weeks of the attacks, the United States went to war in Afghanistan, a conflict that continues at this writing. The war in Iraq followed, starting in 2003 and officially ending in 2011.