When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.
Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my next novel, I finally started telling people that I was a writer. I remember how special that year felt.
I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom. I came up with an idea for a story about motherhood that I would want to read.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
He left us and we rejoiced; then an even more unbearable person came.
If age and experience came at birth, We would have neither youth nor mirth.
For a moment we sit in silence. Eventually, I turn to him and say, "Do you believe in God?" His eyes narrow for a moment and he stares at me at me for a while. Stares in a rather intense way, like a doctor looking at a troubling X-ray. Then he looks ...
The heel of Montgomery’s boot tapped nervously against the floor, as if he knew he was a bad liar. “I can’t say how he’ll take the news at first. He can be unpredictable, but in the end he’ll be glad you came.” He leaned forward, blue eye...
I sometimes heard the parents of Michel's playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really needed "a moment to themselves." The children were in bed at last, and then came the magic moment, and not a minute earlier. I've always thought that wa...
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried ...
As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand. Mike said, "I used...
I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.
I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me.
As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.
When I came out to Hollywood, I was a crazy young kid who didn't have a lot of direction.
I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.
'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.
When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.
