I look for something that is highly unusual, involving…

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

— Karen Robards

He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is no joke

— Ken Tucker

I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

— Ravi Subramanian

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in…

— Vikas Swarup

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

— Anonymous

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

— Robert Cormier

There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world…

— Todd Farmer

Do not wait for extraordinary situations to do good; try to use ordinary situations

— Jean Paul Richter

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his…

— Kiefer Sutherland

“Extraordinary situations call for radical solutions.”

— Paul Mathews

I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.

— Doug Liman

Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.

— Arun Jaitley

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

— Walter Hill

“We all have heard about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. They act courageously or responsibly, and their efforts are described as…

— Anonymous

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

— Yousuf Karsh