“So why did poor artists originally hang around in cafes?" "I don't know. Inspiration from the atmosphere." "Ha! No, you've been tricked, too, just like the rest of us. Cafes didn't have inspirational atmosphere at first. That only came later,… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.” — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" wrote Marlowe, the man Shakespeare feared for many years was the better writer, the man… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“Offstage, she fixed him in place with compliments and ironic bossiness, and he tended not to look at her at all when they spoke.… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“All of this vain heartbreak that we cling to as important or tragic would one day be revealed - by TV scientists - for… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“He considered her ruthless, in his moments of pain, but also in moments of happiness, experienced mere feet from her but bound right wrist… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“She had burned through a fair sampling of manhood trying to find someone, not to make her "happy" - that wasn't the point -… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
