Quotes About Opinion

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

If you want to go around saying that giving women the vote wrecked the country and still be taken seriously, it helps to be handing out $100 bills.

Bill Goldberg can't wrestle.

I think WrestleMania 17, everything's subjective, but if it's me, that's the best card and the best pay-per-view ever and just because of the totality of it. From opening match to last match, everything delivered.

I have never been a massive fan of intergender wrestling.

'Virtual Pro Wrestling 2' remains the best wrestling game ever, in my opinion.

I'm still a big wrestling fan. I buy the Pay-Per-Views. I think that gives me the right to speak out just like any other fan.

If the fans have an opinion, the wrestling universe has to listen.

Wrestling fans dictate policy; they really do. What direction each wrestler takes usually revolves around what the fans think of them.

The fans are the ones that really tell the tale, and I think they speak very loudly about where I stand in pro wrestling. I don't think that there are too many people who would tell you that I don't deserve to be there.

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.

I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.

Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.

Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

Whether you believe it or not, you have to understand the politics. In every script, there is a political bend that the writer has included. Whether you like it or not, is on you. But it's very important to know that politics.

I am a writer and not a judge.

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Writers always know whether you like them or not.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.