Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.
I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.
what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly. "The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.
Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.
I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.
But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.
And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.
The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.
If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.
Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.
Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.
but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.
I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.