Quotes About Author

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.

I am pro-life, I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered.

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

I've got a different perception now and it's really enjoyable to be at this point in your life and be able to watch this.

Regrets, I've had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world.

Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.