Quotes About Author

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

Sharad Pawar is paying tax.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.

Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness.

Either I want this world where there is so much stress and pressure or I want to live in a jungle where there is peace of mind, without any network or social media.

The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

The first time I heard 'Georgia Peaches,' I absolutely loved it.

I'll be honest: I had a real deep-seated fear that 'Buffy' was going to be my peak. It was such a beautiful experience. It was such a fully realized show.

I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Pearl Buck was my mother's favorite author.

My favorite breakfast cereal is Cocoa Pebbles.

I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.

Brits have a peculiar sense of humour. I love it.

I never wanted credit for being a wonderful person or a great human being or looking peculiar. I just wanted credit for the music.

I'm absolutely pedantic about language; it must go back to my schools.

People might get mad at my style or my delivery and say it's not country. But the country music that brought me to Nashville? Man, I will always have that on a pedestal.

The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.