Quotes About Author

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.

Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

current usage (which confines the application of the term "scientific" to claims that are empirically falsifiable) that to insist on it would be to invite needless confusion.

The emphasis in philosophy of nature is always on metaphysical questions, whereas the accent in the philosophy of science (at least where it isn't essentially just philosophy of nature under another name) is on epistemological and methodological issues.

a distinction between events to motivate the claim that cause and effect might come apart.

Mrs. Browning's death was rather a relief to me, I must say; no more Aurora Leighs, thank God!