We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.
While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.
On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.
I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.
I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.
it was a good book and it was an awesome and fun thing to be in color.
