Quotes About Author

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

The first gift my husband ever gave me was a pack of index cards. I'm pretty sure the second was a 'Powers' scriptbook. This was well before either of us worked for Marvel.

I've always been a massive fan of Batman. He didn't have any powers, so it meant that anyone could be Batman.

I perceive Sci-Hub as a practical side of my research.

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.

Like most genres of literary expression, science fiction in China was subject to instrumentalist impulses and had to serve practical goals.

Both Adam and I come from a practical effects background.

Maybe I'm a product of my era, but I just enjoy the practical effects of 'The Thing' more than CGI aliens.

Norman Vincent Peale brought the Gospel in a very practical way in our time of history for not only New York but our nation and also the Trump family.

If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out loud. Denmark is probably one of the places where equality is actually fully achieved. Our political system is practically a matriarchy.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.

I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.

We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.

I was in Philadelphia when Kobe was a senior in high school and he used to come to all our practices and I would work him out.

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.