Writer Quotes

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

I have read your book and much like it.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Love's stronger than fear and death.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.

I worked for a lot of directors.

I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

I prefer writing originals.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.