A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in books and movies.
When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn.
Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.
You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.
Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives...
The habit of considering a man’s religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job is the modern form of persecution.
Around the Godde there forms a Shelle of prayers and Ceremonies and Buildings and Priestes and Authority, until at Last the Godde Dies. Ande this maye notte be noticed.
Never give up! With every step you take in your journey, you are forming your dreams.
A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.
The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.
Ambition can form an impenetrable barrier for those who fail to acknowledge what they already are.
