Beth Henley Quotes
You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.
Quotes to Explore
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Figure out who you are.
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm actually writing, I'm trying to get into a place where I'm tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what's going on.
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My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
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I believe in a passion for inclusion.
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
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The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered
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Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.
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I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.
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I've been broke and sad, rich and sad, broke and happy, rich and happy, and I'll take the rich version over the broke version all day long.
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Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.
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We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.
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Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
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You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.
