Seamus Heaney Quotes
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
Quotes to Explore
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
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When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
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Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag their ears so they're always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we'll know well in advance to do something about it.
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I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.
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Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.
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Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.
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Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.
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I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.
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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
