All Quotes

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
‐‐ Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
‐‐ Nalo Hopkinson

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.
‐‐ Jonathan Tropper

I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
‐‐ Eden Robinson

I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.
‐‐ Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.
‐‐ Julian Barnes

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
‐‐ David Mitchell

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.
‐‐ Claire Scovell LaZebnik

I'm a nudist at heart.
‐‐ Christopher Meloni

I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record?
‐‐ Doug Collins

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
‐‐ Bill Murray

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.
‐‐ Mike Tyson

I'm a nut for these 'crime reality' shows. Things like 'Forensic Files,' 'Forensic Detectives.'
‐‐ David Harewood

I'm a one-man idiot.
‐‐ Eddie Izzard

I'm a one-nation Tory.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.
‐‐ Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I'm a one-woman man. Pretty much.
‐‐ Robert Cray

I'm a pacifist.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

I'm a pacifist by nature.
‐‐ Rafael Correa

I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries should invest in scholarships for kids to study abroad. Perhaps they could become good and knowledgeable professors in their own countries. You need time for that kind of change, though.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

I'm a pack rat, like most people.
‐‐ Donald Baechler

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.
‐‐ Philip Schultz

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
‐‐ Olivier Megaton

I'm a painter in sound.
‐‐ Brian Eno

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
‐‐ H. R. Giger

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
‐‐ Zeresenay Alemseged

I'm a pants girl. I just feel more comfortable in them.
‐‐ Dree Hemingway

I'm a paranoid person. I really am.
‐‐ John McAfee

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
‐‐ Diana Ross

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
‐‐ Hector Elizondo

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
‐‐ Brion James

I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
‐‐ Aaron Peirsol

I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.
‐‐ Ludacris

I'm a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs on the side or stressful careers. I'm certainly not the first person to be working while I'm in university.
‐‐ Sarah Gadon

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
‐‐ Vernon A. Walters

I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.
‐‐ Treat Williams

I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
‐‐ John Jeremiah Sullivan

I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

I'm a passionate individual, and sometimes when I have strong feelings about a subject, I feel the need to express myself.
‐‐ Megan Fox

I'm a passionate man and a passionate reporter. I've also got a loud voice.
‐‐ John Sweeney

I'm a passionate monarchist.
‐‐ Max Hastings

I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.
‐‐ Mos Def

I'm a passionate trade unionist.
‐‐ Richard Attenborough

I'm a passionate Welshman. I have a culinary relationship with language: I taste what I say because I have two languages, and each informs the other.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God.
‐‐ Andrae Crouch