Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of one thing; it's the flow of the whole series that counts.
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative.
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it
When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love.
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.
You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.
One good step breeds another one.
My wife is used to Formula One, and she understands the life.
Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time: And power, unto itself most commendable, Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair To extol what it hath done. One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; Rights by rights falter, strengths by s...
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothi...
One cannot judge in advance whether or not the idea of the story is worthwhile because until one has finished writing the story one does not know for sure what the idea is; and one cannot judge the style of a story on the basis of a first draft, beca...
