If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.
Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.
I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.
But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.
For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.
You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.
There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.
