Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had...
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intellig...
According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a 'poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,' since it places all of the power with the audience, sometimes breeding resentment on the part of the author. 'I can see it in myself ...
I had a dream about you. We were running on the beach in the moonlight, the sand glimmering like bronzed skin. The air was saturated with laughter, some of it was ours, but mostly it was from the audience seated in the stadium parallel to the ocean. ...
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear h...
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great...
[about Tyler splicing frames of pornography into family films] Narrator: So when the snooty cat, and the courageous dog, with the celebrity voices meet for the first time in reel three, that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the ...
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.
Life should be dealt with in small bites, large gulps will choke you.
a small amount of kindness can make a large amount of difference
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.
