Quotes About Author

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.

Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.

'Push' had a story, 'The Paperboy' story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn't as strong. But I felt the characters were stronger in 'The Paperboy'; they were vivid.

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads... and the pictures were so vivid.

I had a very weird, very vivid dream. Donald Trump and I were in some kind of room. It was an office with pictures on the wall behind us, and we were standing next to each other posing for a picture.

If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.'

I am a bit of a dynamic personality and have the ability to use my vocabulary in some creative ways.

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.

I think Lena Dunham, the public figure, is - I hate the word 'brand,' but I'm going to use it - it's such a brand that is so tethered to her public persona and to 'Girls', but also this progressive politics that she's been more vocal about.

Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.

I've always had a deep resonance, but I love vocal work, and I've been doing it for so many years.

And I've had vocal training on and off for years.

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

I've never had vocal training. No one could ever say that they helped me carve what my voice has become. It's just been more of self-training: me just continuously going into the studio every night and trying out different beats.

I started my career at 'Star Trek,' and that had a huge, very vocal fan base.

I was pretty vocal about being anti-Brexit before the referendum vote.