Quotes About Author

I never had a problem with a coach in my life, no matter what team I've been in on.

As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.

As a kid I got to like hang out with Stephen King. That was like the highlight of my life. Cause I think he's the raddest human being ever.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.

Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

Also I have an interest in spirituality and it opens-up so many different areas of Indian life.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.

What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.