Quotes About Author

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

I wasn't allowed to audition for anything professionally until I was - I guess I cheated a little bit and started when I was in college, but I graduated! Barely.

I had been writing professionally since 1988.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

I didn't get paid to write professionally until my first episode of 'Kyle XY,' which was the fourth episode of the first season.

Thanos was the first character I ever created professionally. He's always been the baby I return to whenever I work with Marvel.

Professionally, South has contributed in whatever standing I have. And yes, personally, too, it has given the joy of my life, Sridevi.

Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on a frugal budget.

Nothing in my decade-plus entertainment career has meant more to me personally and professionally than my involvement with HQ.

As far as chemistry is concerned, the audience is the best judge. Professionally, I am supposed to look as convincing as possible opposite my hero.

I have a different perspective on public services to most middle-class professionals on the left.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

There's been so many rivals, most of them Canadian guys like Rick Martel, Christian and Chris Benoit. Those guys were all ultimate professionals, every one of them.

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

My mother was a professor of English and History.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

I wrote and illustrated a science experiment book called 'The Mad Professor'.

Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had to call him, and still do when I see him 'cause he gave me a C.

I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.