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- Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to…
- I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
- Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a…
- Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up…
- I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces.…
- When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong