Quotes About Author

I was recently designated Tweeter Laureate of Texas, which apparently is a thing.

You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western.

I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons.

Minnesota is legit. There's so much space to run, like back home in Texas.

I follow Texas A&M very closely, having worked with the SEC Network.

The rumor is not true: I am allowed in the state of Texas.

I love Texas itself. The landscape is remarkable. The combination of cultures here is incredible. And the history here is pretty remarkable, too, going back centuries.

My wife is a midwife, and there's only so many states where you can do that. Texas is a place where she can work.

I couldn't get out of my mind how miserable I'd been at the end of 10-win seasons. I'd gone from passion to obsession the last few years at Texas.

I love Texas and I have been to Texas many times.

The Neanderthals in Texas have one thing that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi don't have, and that's called common sense.

I came to Congress to continue a career of service to my country and to stand up for the values I learned growing up in West Texas.

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.

I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.

I am always impressed by interviewers who can do the whole thing without notes. I can't. I need reminders on my knee. Dates, first names, quotes in bold text.

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.

I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that.

I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.

The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.

I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite.

When 'The Master' came around, they said they wanted to try and find a part for me, and I got a text from the casting director saying that.