Quotes About Author

I think they should make it a felony to criticise a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead character in 'The Thompson Gunner'.

Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

The endless definitions for feminism are exhausting. It's this, it isn't this, it's only this if you're this, etc.

I have grown up in an environment of equality, so feminism is equality for me.

I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

I hope that there are many more women out there writing bits of feminist sci-fi. And men, also - men are allowed to write feminist things.

I don't really consider myself to be a super feminist.

I'm an old feminist and member of the anti-Nazi league.

Manchester United are very, very fortunate to have the most wonderful manager in Alex Ferguson.

My dream car is a Saleen S7. It's made by Saleen in California; it's basically America's Ferrari.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to.

The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it's the opposite.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

Kerala is a small state, and Malayalam films are seen by only very few people. That doesn't bother me.

I don't think central banks are going to give up fiat currency anytime in my lifetime.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the covers of spaceships - though that never put me off.