Quotes About Author

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

I already have a second career, running a property investment business with a friend.

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

Our property, we've taken the position that we're phasing out the Confederate flag.

There is no need to get caught up in any apocalyptic prophecies that have no basis in reality.

Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

'A Prophet' is one of my favorite films of all time.

Swaggy P is heaven-sent. I'm like a prophet of swag, so the name was heaven-sent.

Far from environmental prophet, he is a foreign oil profiteer. That is the inconvenient truth of Al Gore.

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

That 'Rollercoaster' album cover was very prophetic in its own way. My career has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows.

Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.

Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.

I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.

A ban on paid priority is central to any real net neutrality proposal, beginning with the Snowe-Dorgan Bill of 2006. Indeed, the notion of 'payment for priority' is what started the net neutrality fight.

As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other things, so yes, a good deal of writing was involved.

I had proposals from England, but I believe they would have had to adapt to my style.

Having practical proposals that improve people's economic lives is where it's all about in Ohio, and that's what we're focused on.

At this time, it's all still proposed.

When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.