Quotes About Author

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.

I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s and '50s. I've also written stories that are very high fantasy that are the direct opposite of that style.

'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.

Oh, gosh, I have always been a huge fan of horror since I was a child. I know this is going to sound really weird, but I think it started with fairy tales.

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

The Taliban didn't attack us on 9/11 - Al-Qaeda did. That's why I and other people joined the military - to go after Al Qaeda. Not the Taliban.

Every time I would talk about crypto, my analytics would go through the roof. The analytics went crazy.

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It's my family. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer.

I don't like to talk about players who haven't played; I prefer to talk about the ones who have.

We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.

A lot of people say I talk like 'country-gangster' almost. I don't know how that's possible or how that happens, but some people say that.

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

I don't talk to nobody. You know why? 'Cause if you ain't talkin' money, what the hell you talkin' bout?

Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

I'm in talk radio. A story breaks, I need an opinion. I'm not ESPN News.

VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.