Quotes About Author

Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I've loved her ever since.

I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

I don't know the fitness that Donald Trump possesses to be commenting on other people's heroism. The most lethal foe that he is ever faced in his own life, I think was Rosie O'Donnell.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

I'm used to being behind a camera. That's much more natural for me. But if my life can inspire people, that's what I have to do. My idea is to be of service.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

As for highlights, of course "Grease" changed my life and I will always be grateful for that experience.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.