Quotes About Author

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.

My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.

Bhojpuri film industry is very small - precisely eight people govern the whole industry and I am one of them.

Like my constituents, I have had to immerse myself in the detail about HS2 precisely because of the massive and permanent impact it would have on the area I represent.

I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.

That preconceived notion of me being inaccurate is completely false, and I look forward to changing that over time.

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.

I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.

'Predator,' you know, was John McTiernan absolutely at the top of his game.

Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.'

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to end, but the journey is never quite what you predict because the characters take on a life on their own.

You can't really predict what the fans love.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.