Quotes About Author

I think Nexus is one of the favorite periods of my career, and I think we had a lot of success, and I think people responded to it really well.

I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change.

The U.S. currency has been the most attractive currency to be in for very, very long periods of time.

I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in.

I think, like most people, we are familiar with Aquaman. We grew up reading or watching this character on the peripheral. I was never so in depth with Aquaman as, let's say, I was with X-Men.

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

In a way, novel writing is such a permanently student lifestyle. When it comes to movies, and you have to go to these meetings and try and impress people and get money out of them, I feel as though I'm playacting at being somebody who's grown up.

The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them!

We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

We will be very persistent when it comes to enforcing freedom, justice, and self-determination on the European continent.

I want to make clear that my feedback comes from a place of loyalty and persistent gratitude. I love Twitter.