Quotes About Author

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'

The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'

Looking back, my style was pretty much Marvel house style - very large, thick characters, very musclebound, not very flexible.

In TV writing, Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Thick of It' is brilliant - equal parts hysterically funny, terrifyingly believable, and Oh-my-God-I-can't-believe-he-actually-said-that - and it's got the most satisfyingly creative insults ever.

For 'The Book Thief,' I wanted only one outcome, and that was for the director to follow his own vision, just as I had.

Everything is new about 'Siruthai.' This is the first time I'm playing a dual role - a thief and a police officer!

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and unknowingly.

Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.

But I really have no desire to get thin; 175 is my normal weight.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

I love when big things happen for Brooklyn.

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.

I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together.

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.

I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.

I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.