Quotes About Author

Recently, however, Calvinism seems to be staging a remarkable comeback. Consider the words of popular author Dave Hunt, explaining why he chose to write a book on Calvinism despite the controversy it might cause.

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

It's not like I ever wanted to wake up and just be a grossly overpaid, self-loathing, can't-look-in-the-mirror-without-gagging TV writer.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

But Lon was not only entertainment; he mixed entertainment with information like a modern novelist who not only gives you a lot of love-making, but also leaves you, when the lovers part, with a lot of information about running a hotel, avoiding sharks, or living in a kibbutz.

There is a constitution that some have, and I had it---to which everything foreign is wondrous, and all that is domestic, tiresome.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

One of my challenges [as a writer] is to make sure that I'm giving the reader details that the character cares about rather than details that I care about. I#d say that's key to world-building.

What are you going to have?" he asked. "A nervous breakdown," she muttered and opened her menu. So we'll tell the waitress to make that a double, he thought.

It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.

How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid," She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

Are you flirting with another of my sisters?" Rolf sounded aggrieved. "Is no woman safe from you?

If there was any truth to the legend of the Nine Daughters of Russaka, Petunia thought suddenly, this is precisely what one of them would look like now.

San Ysidro Ranch and

That man penetrated me with his shame. Shame, I realize now, is an infectious disease. Shame can be sexually transmitted.

I've thought often about why - why?! - anyone, especially other women, would try to disrupt feminist work that combats violence. What in the world could be the point of that? The only reason I've come up with, and I think it makes sense, is fear of becoming that "impure" woman.