Quotes About Author

I've been involved with great scripts and so-so leadership, and it's clear to me that leadership is the most compelling factor.

I love 'X Factor,' and I love Sharon: she's brilliant.

The thing is, I knew from the very first audition that I did not fit the classic 'X Factor' criteria.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.

My father worked in a factory and as a child it felt very secure. It felt very secure because everybody had work, the schools were free, so there was a security of knowing that the war had finished and families would come together again.

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.

When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.

I think it's fair to say I feel much more comfortable in business than in politics.

The only Batman that doesn't need parodying is Adam West, but everybody else is fair game.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.

I am not conscious of falling under any of those ornithological divisions.

Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.

False equivalency is the lifeblood of American public debate.

I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.