Writer Quotes

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

I love Marvel and the people there. I'm glad I'm still part of it.

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.

I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.

Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.