Quotes About Author

There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and more productive at business, but I don't know of one that grounds any of these in the science.

I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.

Seattle's not a particularly Jewish city, and I'm not in any way religious. Since I've been here, I've been a fairly productive, even obsessively productive, writer.

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

I'm a boring guy who's got a great job in a profession that still gives me a great deal of pleasure after 35 years.

By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverted profession. I'm a little inappropriately in it.

Showbusiness is such a mad profession, I find commerce a wonderful outlet for keeping me sane.

I was interested in drama, but it never seemed like a real profession somehow. It was so outside my experience, and I probably wouldn't have had the confidence for drama school, though I did send off for an application form.

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience's perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.

It's a true honor to have the endorsement of the Kentucky Professional Fire Fighters.

I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

It's an exciting time in the world - democracy, in all its different shapes, is rolling around to new countries all the time. To have a chance to shape the democracy in my home country is an honor.

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.

We live in an era now where every episode is reviewed 80 different times on the Internet by periodicals you've never even heard of.

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

Locke' is a different way of making a film as well as being a different sort of film.

I do have food in my books. Different people eat different ways.