Quotes About Author

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

If you had ever told me that the finest film work was going to be done on television, I wouldn't have believed it.

Mazzaro's is absolutely one of the finest shopping experiences anywhere and I wish I got there more often.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

I've never finished anything by Dickens.

I'd never have left Hawkwind if I hadn't been fired.

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

Trump's anti-China trade demagoguery may work in firing up his base, but it does a disservice to the truth.

I take a firm stand against sequels. My industry brethren are a little shocked at how firmly I'm committed to not doing sequels.

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'

My first job was at Zellers in Belleville! It's weird that my first job was in a store like this. And 15 years later I'm playing a character on American television who works there.

I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.

First of all, the leads aren't the kind of acting work that I like. The parts that are meatier are not the ones that have to have a romance.

A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.

People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

First 2Pac song I heard was 'Brenda Got a Baby.' That was the first one. I didn't even hear it. I saw the video.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.