The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.
If you are going to die you will die in the dark even if you have been in the candle business.
Radicals have value, at least; they can move the center. On a scale of 1 to 5, 3 is moderate, 1 and 5 the hardliners. But if a good radical takes it up to 9, then 5 becomes the new center. I already saw it working in the American Muslim community. Fo...
How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking “The Dodge Rebellion”? How is one to be bona fide iconoclast when Burger King sells onion rings with “Sometimes You Go...
Margaret Campbell: You're an honor student. If you transfer to Mrs. Gruwell's class, think how that'll reflect on your records. Victoria: It doesn't matter to me, my grades will still be the same. Look, Ms. Campbell, when I first transferred to this ...
Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.
...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...
I am a writer, I'm supposed to be intense and emotional,
The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.
I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
I did 'Never Let Me Go,' and there were amazing people on that. Brilliant writer, director, cast. That was quite special.
Someone said that once a family producers a writer, that's the end of the family.
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?
Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
