Quotes About Author

To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can pull from a lot of resources and put them into my work and just have as much information as possible.

Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.

I'm not a big believer in the idea of genre - I'm a fan of any writer who can pull me into compelling characters and stories - but I can't imagine I'll start writing domestic dramas any time soon.

I'm a felon. I get pulled over all the time.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.

A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Tessa's hilarious. I think it's one of the things that gets overlooked because she's always so pulled together, but she has the best sense of humor.

I disapprove of the analysis that Jho Low was special and that he pulled off something amazing, because I think he was just one of many.

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

'Lovecraft Country' is reclaiming all these pulp genres for people of color.

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind.

We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.

I am today's youth. At 26, I understand their pulse. We don't look for a reason to celebrate life. We just do it.

Nobody knows the pulse of the audience. By the grace of God, things are working for me.

Trump's one liberal policy seems to be his desire to pump more funding into mental health - which I've taken the liberty of interpreting as a massive cry for help.

I'm a real fan of that Foster the People song 'Pumped Up Kicks.'

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

'The Dark Knight' does such a great job of delivering an intense, action-packed film that didn't pull any punches.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.