I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.
I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.
I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.
I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.
To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.
The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.
Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.
Auditioning is such an unnatural thing. You're in a tiny little room with, like, seven people cramped together, acting to a casting director; just, none of it makes any sense.
