Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.
I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.
My favorite thing to wear from about first to third grade was a blue t-shirt with an iron-on monkey and the caption 'Here Comes Trouble.'
I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.
I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.
I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.
Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life
People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth.
It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.
I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous.
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!
'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.
When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!
I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.
I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.
She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.
The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.
All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.
A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.
I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.
Alex [Kendrick] and I started out the whole film-making journey as a desire to reach people for Christ and try to impact their lives for him.
I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.
I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.