Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and what I should do, I would never have come up with the idea of writing. It was already there, gratis, a given - a gift.
Quentin S. Crisp
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom
My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
Natasha Trethewey
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb
'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
Manny Farber
You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
Kate Upton
The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
Eddie Cahill
Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
Sammi Hanratty
I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.
Charles M. Schwab
American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
Joe Manganiello
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
Bret Easton Ellis
People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and what I should do, I would never have come up with the idea of writing. It was already there, gratis, a given - a gift.
Quentin S. Crisp