There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.
Sometimes it's all about the casting.
I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
I think touring is hard.
The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
All the attention in the world won't do my dishes.
I'm proud to be a Democrat.
I do not come out of a literary tradition.
Women prefer speaking to talking.
I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.
I like the Mets. I'm interested in the Mets.
I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.
