“Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.”

“It is better to be the hammer than the nail.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.”

James Gleick (1954) American author, journalist, and biographer

“I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

“When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

“Thomas Paine was kind of the — oh, I don't know. My apologies to Thomas Paine, but kind of the me of the genera— I mean, I can't think of anybody else. A guy just saying, "Hey, really, stand up. Come on. We can do it." He was kind of the — he was the media guy, really. He just did pamphlets, the rest of us just do TV.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) American psychologist

“I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark