Quotes About Author

I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.

I have fought back against voices out there that want to curtail immigration, because immigration is critical to our success.

I think there's a real hunger out there for new voices who will speak more truth to power and who are less ensconced in the establishment machine.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

There's an age group that's just not being entertained - the boomers. There's a void out there. It's nice to be one of those who can fill that void.

I enjoyed using cranes and using all these CGI images on 'Enter the Void.'

Volatility is not something that is a great fit for Duke if you look at the level of dividend we pay.

Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned.

I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.

'Pompeii' will be PG-13. I think it has to have a level of violence and death in it because you've got a volcano exploding. But it will be another PG-13 movie.

I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart.

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.

In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else.

'A Storm of Swords' is a massive volume, and it seemed like it would be shortchanging it to try to cram it into ten episodes.

I haven't really used Loki at all in 'Thor: God of Thunder' or the previous volume of Thor.

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.

Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.

You always have to reset your volume for the venue you are in. Sometimes the tubes can have you scratching your head because they react differently at different volumes.