Quotes About Author

My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.

Derren Brown doesn't really predict the lottery numbers. But there is an enormous amount of entertainment in there.

The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable, and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation.

I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies - they are so predictable.

The success that Pantera had, I could have never, ever forecasted or predicted, and I always felt a responsibility to try to pay even a bit of it forward.

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

When Durant was in college, I predicted on 'First Take' he would lead the NBA in scoring and began calling him my favorite player.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.

I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but it's not where my inclination is. I want to hide.

I definitely have a preference for writing anti-heroes and bad guys, especially when they have motivations that the average 'good' person can understand and get behind.

I have absolutely no preference on TV or stage. Every job I take or that I audition for all comes down to the quality of the script.