Quotes About Author

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

"Mansome" was one of those projects where it was a great change to do something fun and look at the subject in an engaging way. My next film is not going to be about pedicures.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.

Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.