Quotes About Author

I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

I love writing Scottish dialogue.

'Parkland' is not out to pick a fight and start a dialogue about conspiracy.

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.

I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.

I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.

I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.

I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

I've made it pretty clear that I can't legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can't. You do everything that you can.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

I had difficult mother, difficult childhood like she had. She is Sagittarius like I am. I almost died from broken heart because of love. And she really did.

In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.

I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.