James P. Carse Quotes
The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
James P. Carse
Quotes to Explore
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
Walter Jon Williams
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
Hans Haacke
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
Hannibal Buress
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
Hans Haacke
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
Pat Conroy
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The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.
Peter Guber
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Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.
Martin Filler
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
Saku Koivu
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What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.
Lionel Shriver
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I had fallen in love with photography and was making a living doing photographic features for publications such as 'Picture Post,' 'Paris Match' and 'Life' magazine. But in 1939, I saw a huge headline, which I think was in the 'Sunday Express.' It said, 'Danzig - Danger Point of Europe.' I packed up my Leica, got on a train, and went.
Douglas Slocombe
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The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
James P. Carse
