Quotes About Author

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Now, look, I - I like to look at evidence. I plead to that. I think evidence is important when you're making decisions that affect other people's lives.

'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

Rules are not improved by sloganeering, fact-free letter-writing campaigns, or special pleading from interest groups.

My own dealings with the RSS and allied organisations have been extremely positive and a pleasant experience.

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'

When they first asked me to do 'Hulk,' my first instinct was to say no because I didn't think I had anything to say with the character, especially when they said, 'Please do what you did with 'Daredevil,' whatever that was.'

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

I'm really pleased to form part of the Barca family.

My father was not really pleased when I told him of my choice to train as an actress, when he was with us in this dimension.

I'm really pleased with WPS and the quality of players and the teams.

I think I've had a certain amount of success at making phrases. I'm a good writer. But obviously, I'm incredibly flattered and pleased when people remember things that I say.

I am very, very, very pleased with Graham Gano.

Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.

I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser.

I'm very much a people pleaser, and the first book had such a devoted and loving following.

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.