Author Appeal/Quotes

Black: In your songs, you spend most of your time in cars and beds --- you appear to be relatively fond of leather...
Morrissey: I certainly do, yes.
Black: Aren't these relatively sexual ambients?
Morrissey: They certainly are. You're on the right track now. Next question.
Black: No. Tell me about cars. Aren't cars very male?
Morrissey: They are, but I'm afraid we all have our idiosyncracies, and one of mine... as a child of the sixties, when the seats of cars were made entirely of leather, to me there was something highly erotic about actually being in a car... I've always found cars highly erotic.
Black: Why? Because they go vroom vroom, and you can switch them on and switch them off when you want?
Morrissey: No, no --- not the driver's seat... there was just something about the old leather seats...
Black: So you're into leather?
Morrissey: Y-y-e... next question.

—Morrissey interviewed by Antonella Black, Zig Zag, May 1985

"But moxie is part of Tarantino's DNA. Who else would make his first film in six years a wet kiss to kung fu and pack it with his fetishes for ultraviolence, Uma Thurman's feet and music from Nancy Sinatra to RZA?"

—Peter Travers on Kill Bill Vol. 1

"Ha! More duct tape. I think this is like the third episode in a row that features the use of duct tape. No, the writers are not obsessed with duct tape. It's just a coincidence."

—Dan Schneider, hanging a lampshade on the fact that three of the first four episodes of season 3 of iCarly feature someone being restrained with duct tape

"Someone pointed out recently that I draw my characters in bath scenes an awful lot, and I want to make it clear to everyone that this is certainly not due to any perverseness on my part. No, the fact is, I demand the cleanliness of my characters! This is simply an issue of hygiene, and has nothing to do with getting characters in lecherous situations in various states of undress."

—Tom Fischbach, author of Twokinds

"Nurse Mahiro and Shishio Tokiko... I'm sorry. It's not my characters that are out of control. It's me."

—Nobuhiro Watsuki displays refreshing honesty, Busou Renkin chapter notes

About an hour later it was lunch and Hermione pulled out some pepper jack cheese, her fave kind of cheese. (AN: mine too!)

—Ice Bear, Punk Butt Hermione?

Every series written [by Piers Anthony] post-Xanth-success has a pubescent girl involved with an older man. It's just that thing that happens to science fiction authors where their brain passes its "sell by" date and curdles, and they put their fetishes in every book. I call it Heinlein Syndrome.

—cappadocius, rpg.net forums

anon1: You know, as much as it is implied that Motoko is a lesbian stripper-ninja, I seem to have missed the constant lesbian sex scenes the series is supposed to have if you listen to some people.
anon1: I vaguely remember it having come up once or twice throughout two seasons, but hardly any real sex scenes.
anon2: That's mostly in the manga, which was drawn directly by the guy who was also writing it.
anon2: After GitS, the basically decided he no longer felt like inventing excuses for drawing oiled up naked chicks and just drew oiled up naked chicks.

— /tg/ discussing Ghost in the Shell