Quotes About Author

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.

I'm not a huge Lovecraft fan as far as that goes; I think there are some stories of his that are really quite wonderful, but for the most part, I have great difficulties with his prose - and the more you know about the man, the harder it is to separate him from the work in many ways.

Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

My focus will always be crime, but it might not always be fiction, nor always for adults, nor books entirely in prose. That's a lot of ground to cover, so I might as well begin.

This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.

The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.

I remember, as a federal prosecutor myself, it's only a 3-year appointment, and they interviewed my childhood neighbors.

I was a federal prosecutor when we exercised powers under the Patriot Act or under the FISA court.