Quotes About Author

I come from a service family - I met my husband Dave during my third tour in Iraq serving as a CIA analyst alongside the military.

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

I'm a big David Lynch fan.

I love David Lynch movies, and I like Haruki Murakami books.

I'm a big fan of David Sedaris; I love all his books and have them all on audio and e-reader, in addition to hard copies.

On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.

My favorite author is David Baldacci; I've read all his books. I even have a picture with Baldacci taken during his book-signing in the States.

When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law.

I love David Lynch's style. Someone once thought I was his son, so I must have been doing an alright job at emulating it.

David Brooks - every time I see him, I like him. He breaks lines, runs beyond, and I like him a lot.

I'm a big Geena Davis fan. I have a Geena Davis-signed baseball, which is funny because I don't get signatures from most baseball players I meet.

The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.

'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.

I'm actually pretty afraid of scary movies, so I can't watch them at night, but I am a fan during the daytime!

The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.

Anybody who's read 'Pretty Deadly' knows that I tend to savor an immersive, 'You'll figure it out as you go!' style. 'Pretty Deadly' really does not hold your hand.

I hate being on TV, hate dealing with media on TV. All that stuff, I don't like that.

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get chopped up into ever-smaller parcels.

A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.

When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.

I've dealt with a lot of media and I know the New York media different, for sure.