Quotes About Author

It's good to go off and write a novel, but don't stop doing writing practice.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

Nadine Gormey. Vice president, biochemical research. Hilarious.

You rented an apartment with its own escape route?" "I did," Z says. "It's not so paranoid when you use it to do just that.

Author reads for Seattle; it has always been his city. He reads for the buyer, who has always believed. Author reads one more time to his old man. He smiles at his reader, and reads on through the tears. Author reads on. And Author reads on.

I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

It was a dance. Or would be, if the composer and the musicians were all mad, and the ballroom was a sodden grave.

Acceptance doesn't mean masochistic pessimism, but joyful support of and participation in the great cosmic drama.

An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you.

It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.

If you're not very busy, a grown man in the uniform of a Western Union boy should make you feel a little sick.

It was on this trip that Faye acquired a new suitor by the name of Homer Simpson.

Along with "mon hysterie" I cultivated a "rotten, ripe maturity." You understand what I mean: like Rimbaud, I practiced having hallucinations.

You can't volunteer to go to war and then bitch about getting shot at.

Safety is paramount." "If safety were paramount," Whitmer declared, "we'd stay in the barracks and play pickup basketball. Good training is paramount.

He had no great advice to offer to his clients about this fact. He just wanted them to understand the likelihood that they would be incinerated shortly.

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.

Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit." Yuki: "Thank you. So much.

Hanajima, my spear! Bring me my spear!

Shigure Sohma: Tohru's very cute in a sweet sort of way. Hatori Sohma: For some reason when you say that it reeks of something illegal.

Did you hear that! Yuki, the heartless Yuki! Heartless Yuki has begged me with tears to let him visit my shop!