Quotes About Author

I tried to get a job in music but was too unique to stand behind someone as a backing vocal or to sing in weddings.

Ashwin and I don't like elaborate weddings, so we had a court marriage.

I'm a huge fan of writing for people rather than writing and then trying to wedge people in. I'd love to know who the people are before I can write for them. For me, it's a much more organic way to create characters.

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

I have seen 'A Wednesday,' and it is a wonderful film.

Daft Wee Stories' is, as the title says, daft wee stories. I just sort of rattled them out, tried to make them quite funny, with punchlines - they're kind of like sketches.

Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out with friends, so I do have some nights off.

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.

I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from single households. That was something that, when I lived in South Bronx, that's what it was like.

Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.

I love going home to Belfast on weekend breaks from training.

I come home every weekend and I still can't believe I represent Las Vegas in Congress. It's such a kick.

Too often, real policy improvements get drowned out by political talking points.

Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing me to learn more about everyone in the process.

I don't trade on my sexual identity in that way for political points. I think that's lame, and it's not my style.

People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.

We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

Writing about poker is one of my passions.