Clive Thompson Quotes

I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.

Clive Thompson

Unique
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

P. J. O'Rourke
- History
- Past
- Myself
Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Vance Joy
- Writing
- Real
- Experience
Well who's black and what is a black person?

Pam Grier
- Black
- Person
- Well
I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.

Yoko Ono
- Time
- Future
- Past
Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

AJ McLean
- Band
- Boy
- Gay
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

E. L. Doctorow
- World
- God
- Done