Quotes About Author

I worked in the second, third, and fourth editions of 'Harry Potter.' I played one of the students.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can.

My mom set up relief programs in third world countries. We would do things like go to Bogota with her instead of summer camp.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

Something like 'Dr. Thirteen,' which features no big characters, was probably the most fun thing I've worked on because the story was so great, and it was written so well.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

Listen, the Latin people, I love the Latin people. They are so loyal to you. Even if you haven't been on TV for thirty years, they still love you. And they cherish you and give you respect. You're not fast food in the Latin market.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

Bernardo Silva is a key player, like Thomas Lemar.

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.