Quotes About Author

I don't think I should be telling you every 10 minutes what to think. I like to leave the audience alone with the magic. I tend to trust the material, or I don't do it.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies.

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

The story entitled 'Good-Bye' is probably Tatsumi's most well-known work, and I think it's a good representation of many of Tatsumi's skills and stylistic tendencies.

I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.'

My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature.

I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.

A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.

There's a tendency to think tap's had its day, but 'Happy Feet' kept us in the race. That penguin is our Shirley Temple.

There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.

There is a tendency for the New Gods to work best as guest stars.

I have a tendency to catastrophise and doing something that you have control over is an escape from that.

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don't even rhyme with T.

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.