Quotes About Author

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.

I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting.

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics.

'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.

When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

Mousasi is a very tough fighter.

Amir Khan is a great fighter, I have a lot of respect for him.

It's a crazy experience for me to be in a Foo Fighters video.

I think I'm pretty marketable when it comes to marketing fighters 'cause I've met a lot of 'em, and they're not that interesting. They don't do too many things, or their days are not like my days.

I really like Bellator and them as a company and how they are run. It's a popular place for fighters to go to.

There will never be a fighters' union. Ever.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

We like to entertain, but it is not our duty to do so. I have had a lot of exciting fights and been hit way too much, so that is something to think about.