A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.
To me, the thing that has always ruined Jane Fonda is her voice.
I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.
There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.
Plus, I was about to spend six weeks with Christian Ozera. He was sarcastic, difficult, and made jokes about everything. Actually, he was a lot like me. It was going to be a long six weeks.
Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good.
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
To be my man, you have to put up with a lot. I toot under the sheets, I spend a lot of money and I can belch the ABCs.
Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.
