Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.
I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.
Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart.
It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.
