Quotes About Author

My family is a conservative one. They don't want me to join films and I also go by their wishes.

Some people do politics, let them, my best wishes to them.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community.

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

I loved Winnie the Pooh, the Disney character, and I loved his wit and warmth.

I like Shah Rukh for his wit, intelligence, grit and determination, and Akshay for the way he interacts with people.

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper.

I am a professional comedian, a published novelist, and a general wit for hire.

Many gays have a good sense of humour and they like the wit I hopefully put into my performances.

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!