Quotes About Author

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

I really enjoyed Casino Royale because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.

A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.