Adam Gopnik Quotes
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
Adam Gopnik
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
Adam Green
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White
My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
Raf Simons
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter
I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
W. Mark Felt
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
Oscar Wilde
Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.
Brian Tracy
Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, 'Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride!
Kathleen Madigan
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.
Madeleine L'Engle
One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone.
Charlie Brooker
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
Adam Gopnik
