Quotes About Author

If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which is typically what people describe as being left-of-centre on social issues and right-of-centre on economic issues.

We can see that immigration has become favorable terrain for the development of Islamism.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

I'm not particularly politically correct, so I tend to reflect what I think are the terrible realities of life, which I think are, generally speaking, conservative.

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

I got no business going to a club. I'm a terrible dancer. I got a bad back.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.

I have great memories, but I'm not terribly nostalgic.

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous.