I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process..
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on other….
Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature..
I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it..
It's a hard thing to examine and difficult to speak for other writers, but when I look at my own writing there is often too much reticence. And that'….
I've lived a long time, and a lot of things shut down. Painting is one of them. It never occurred to me that I wanted to go back. The world, in a pat….
We were 15 minutes into it and nothing was happening; I thought, well, that's not going to work. Then all of a sudden everything clicked. I don't kno….
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how p….
I tend to compete every weekend with racing so I'm very busy training for both. The travelling is a lot but I have been living this lifestyle so long….
Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but ….
You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell….
Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die..
Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!.
Successful blog is a unique voice; and depending on the blog, your own style factors in. To some extent, it might have to do with the graphic aesthet….
Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistak….
It took me a really long time to decide who I want my circle to be and who I want to surround myself with. Once you make that choice, that is where I….
I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am..
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of att….
He's brilliant. At first, I thought, 'Oh, is he going to be Hollywood stud-like?' But he's a really kind, wonderful person. He said to me one day ear….
Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the….
You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good.