Quotes About Events

Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.

If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age of the burning aftermath.

Sometimes in the NBA, the schedule gets to be a lot with all these events, busses, planes and games. But once that's gone, you miss it so bad.

I had planned on taking things easy for a while in 2014 but things started to crop up and I ended up having quite a busy year, with events including the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games with Rod Stewart.

People always say I can be a party planner because I'm really good at having to go and planning things out.

Our platform is self-service, so we enable people to host events themselves. The biggest events tend to be the free ones. We had 100,000 at a salsa congress in Mexico.

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

To me, action has to come from the plot.

I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.

My go-to shoes for red-carpet events are usually always black, but I mix between my pointed stilettos and platform heels.

It seems like all of my biggest life events happen when I'm actually at home in Cleveland around my family.

When I go shopping, I try to specify certain things for certain events, but most of the time, I have so much stuff to pull from at home in the closet.

Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.

I don't actually go to that many concerts.

I didn't start going to concerts until I moved to California.

Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.

I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.

I have no connections with any political event.

I get very anxious doing press and events, so it's important I surround myself with people I get on with and really trust.

Of all the programs, I watch sporting events live and I watch 'Survivor' live. Everything else I TiVo.