Quotes About Author

I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

I feel more pressure when I'm writing for teens. I'm very aware that my audience is impressionable. Therefore, I'm far more careful about what I say and the language I use.

A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.

Like Theresa May, I regularly find myself infuriated by the rantings of Anjem Choudary and other hate preachers.

Sometimes I worry that people who read my fiction think that I am making some kind of thesis statement.

Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.

I had done some work on index funds in my senior thesis at Princeton in 1951.

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.

I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.

The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes, is not the British way of writing history, and never has been.

I'm pretty sure Magic Mike' is the best funded gender studies thesis ever so I'm going to have to see that.

They say behind every successful man is a powerful woman. And there is no more powerful performer I would rather be in the ring with for a conversation than Stephanie McMahon.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.

I always think the most important thing for a writer is a deadline, and it's the same with a house. They say you shouldn't make an emotional decision with a house, but I think it is the only decision you can make.

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list.

You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

As to whether Luke is the 'Last Jedi,' they say in 'The Force Awakens' he's going to find the last Jedi temple and Luke is the last Jedi.

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story.