Quotes About Author

I was a sucker for glamorous women in shoulderpads eating fancy things like eggs benedict.

For dramas, I love 'Downton Abbey.' I'm a sucker for the BBC.

I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.

I love a bit of pop music. I'm a big sucker for it.

The Germs' contribution to history sucks as far as I'm concerned.

It always sucks to have to cancel a show because of illness, but unfortunately it sometimes happens.

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.

I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

I hate the fact that, all of a sudden now, it's not cool to go to the Gator Bowl. Are you kidding me? I don't like that mindset.

I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Some people criticise me for not being animated enough, for sitting in stands and not showing any passion. I come down, get involved in a couple of situations and all of a sudden, it's a slightly different angle.

I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'

There is the possibility to be suddenly arrested for hacking.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.

Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.

'Sue and settle' involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA, not through Congress or proper rule-making.

I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.

By the end of 1982, the game changed. Muller published her second Sharon McCone novel, Sue Grafton introduced Kinsey Millhone in 'A Is for Alibi', and the floor was now open - whether some liked it or not - for more women to claim the tropes of private eye fiction for their own.

I mean, comics fear sue - you know, lawsuits and stuff like that, just because they don't like to do paperwork.

The reason why there are so many characters who suffer in my games is that I want to show reality.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.