Quotes About Author

I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

I wholly promote the omelette as a meal whatever the occasion, especially your last one.

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

My experience of children on a film set, especially on a big film set like the 'Potter' one, is not wholly positive.

Labour are a danger to our security and our economy and are wholly incapable of negotiating the best Brexit deal for Britain.

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

The MGR Sivaji awards are organised by the PRO stalwarts in the industry whom I actually respect.

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

Terrible letters came to me. Letters from strange people; people whom I never believed lived in the world; depraved and distorted minds, thinking they saw in me the perfect companion, a fellow psychopathic.

I've had the joy of representing some fantastic clubs, all of whom have helped to shape me in their own varying way.

Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried.

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.