Quotes About Author

I was actually going to school to be a chiropractor but was also succeeding at bodybuilding - I did well in a few national contests.

I have heard of worse fates than succeeding the longest-serving manager in England.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that's something we talk about a lot.

The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in 'The Big Short,' he's now doing with the media in 'Succession.'

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

My record company certainly wants me to play live, badly, but I have no such plans. My only motivation to do such a thing would be money, and I don't think that's a good reason to play live.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

I hate prologues because they're kind of gimmicks to suck you in.

I try to write for women, but I suck at it. I really do.

I'm just a sucker for a good script and people that are passionate about it. I love independents.

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.

I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old poems I'm still writing in Russian.