Interview Quotes

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of huma...

You have a very open relationship with your fans.""Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they...

Piracy is the new radio.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep ...

I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, ...

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility t...

I’m working on another Lyra book right now – it’s called The Book of Dust.“It’s going very well and ...

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of...

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing ...

Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think...

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if...

The complexity of the so-called individual that’s been praised for decades in America somehow has na...

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four mill...

Q: Where and when do you do your writing? A: Any small room with no natural light will do. As for wh...

My thoughts about pornography tend to revolve around the fact that while very few of us are zombies,...

Stirton's work, he says, is now all about investigation. 'You literally are trying to find out what'...

I think it’s vital. It’s odd to me because many people say we live in these awful times and we need ...

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, ...

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and...

I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respe...

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so diffic...

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn...

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. ...

I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to posi...

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I mig...

Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On...

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-w...

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early d...

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

I think sometimes in literature we kind of police ourselves. I know a lot of people talked about Twi...

No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds o...