Quotes About Author

There are always differences, tensions, paradoxes between what a text says (or what an author wants to say, or thinks s/he is saying) and what a text does.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

Next thing I know you've run off to Paris and thrown yourself under the nearest Frenchman-

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

I stand and grab a hefty bottle of perfume from the bathroom shelf and return to the bedroom door. It's not much of a weapon, I know, but it's heavy and square, and hitting someone over the head with a glass brick has got to be better than bitch-slapping them.

politicians are the same, i.e. useless, whereas I obstinately cling to the hope that some are at least less useless than others.

He calls you dear Sabine - Patronizing fart!

She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor." I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after.

You ain't got no self-respect, you feel like an insect Well don't you worry buddy, cause here he comes

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

Francis Wheen will release Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

Western democracies managed to fight without imposing restrictions on freedom of speech. Instead of Orwell's 'war atmosphere', there was an anti-war atmosphere.

Few liberals have the confidence to say that free speech, like sexual freedom, would not create a terrible society, because they do not trust their fellow citizens.

It was reality TV that convinced SILAS he would need to annihilate humanity in order to go on living.

England is my city

Good newspapers believe in giving a balanced view of the world. Fine. Some people then exploit that belief and use it to balance truth with falsehood.

I, Rahotep, youngest chief detective of the Thebes Medjay division,

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

Ace Bourke, whose ecstatic reunion in Africa, years after Christian's release, is memorialized on film—the unavoidable circumstances of

If his ethos had inspired those in charge of cutting government waste, we'd be turning a surplus in a finger snap.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

There were many things. I'm what I call a 'moving on' kind of girl. There's a song on our new album about it. Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know. Women tend to be more into men usually but I wasn't." 1980

The only two things that matter to me, the only motivation points for me writing all these songs,' opines Costello with a perverse leer, 'are revenge and guilt. Those are the only emotions I know about, that I know I can feel. Love? I dunno what it means, really, and it doesn't exist in my songs.