Quotes About Author

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.

Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse of the constitution by the government.

I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.

My personal belief in doing Brand New Congress is that the movement needs something to focus on that's constructive.

If someone wanted to do a biopic about me, I would like for them to consult my family.

A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.

People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

When I'm not working in a professional capacity, I'm writing, and when I'm at home, it's a way of having contact with people or communicating.

I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.

I couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life!

I had been contemplating working on fiction show for some time and 'Humsafars' seemed like the perfect choice.

I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

Maybe people who aren't too interested in period pieces will be now because 'Bridgerton' is so contemporary, so modern.

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Obviously UFC was one of those kind of dreams that we weren't sure if we were ever going to reach, so for us, the biggest belt was the Cage Contender belt.

I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

I've tried to slow this down but realized that my natural reading rhythm is freakishly fast when an author friend asked me to go through the manuscript of her soon-to-be-published book for continuity errors.

I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short story writing.