Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.
What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.'
I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.
