If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I do think that whatever you do, you should do regularly, whether it’s waking up at midnight and drinking vodka or wakin...
It is believed that the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. It is so in social life, too. Without any egoistic interest nobody criticizes the government. Give the critics the money and the power, more than they have, they will ...
The exciting thing about mathematics and science and music and literature is what they can tell us about the workings of the human mind. For these disciplines are literally models (extensions) of at least certain parts of the mind. Just as the knife ...
I have not been nourished by English Literature. . . for the simple reason that I have never found much there in which to rest my heart (or heart and head together). I was brought up in the Classics, and first discovered the sensation of literary ple...
As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of literature. They seemed to him vague, fickle, irresponsible creatures, who wallowed in relativism like hippopotami in mud, with their nostrils barely ...
For so long considered a second-rate category to other writing genres, Science Fiction should be allotted its true place in literature. The reason Science Fiction is so important is because SF authors create the future. They bring through ideas, tech...
The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year. ... One-fifth to the person having made the most important disc...
One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all theologies and all religious formulations of beliefs may still find Genesis the sublime book par excellence. E...
I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'
I love 'The Americans.' I think it's one of the best shows on TV.
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.
As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!
Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.
