Quotes About Author

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

It's a very good historical book about history.

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.