The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questi...
Consider A Move The steady time of being unknown, in solitude, without friends, is not a steadiness that sustains. I hear your voice waver on the phone: The voice zeroes through my ear, and waits. What should I say? There are ways to meet people you ...
Seven Rules Formulated for Teaching Arithmetic: 1) Consider the situation the pupils faces. 2) Consider the response you wish to connect with. 3) Form the bond; do not expect it to come by miracle. 4) Other things being equal, form no bond that will ...
Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle�...
The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. ...
Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of compliments in Chelsea and Chiswick and a faint thrill in Streatham and Surbiton, is described as "daring," though nobody on ...
Nikola Tesla: Mr. Angier, have you considered the cost of such a machine? Robert Angier: Price is not an object. Nikola Tesla: Perhaps not, but have you considered the *cost*? Robert Angier: I'm not sure I follow. Nikola Tesla: Go home. Forget this t...
In her only departure from her prepared text, Heckler added, “We must conquer AIDS before it affects the heterosexual population and the general population…. We have a very strong public interest in stopping AIDS before it spreads outside the ris...
When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.
Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.
Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.
