Quotes About Author

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.

There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels.

Anyone who's familiar with my writing schedule knows that there is always plenty of time between books for me!

There were plenty of clubs wanting me but as soon as my agent Lee Robinson told me Derby were interested I had a good feeling.

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.

I'm open to do a Filipino drama if I like the role or if the plot is attractive to me.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.

There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.

I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.