Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of p….
The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so m….
If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to s….
In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in non….
I asked for a glass of Chardonnay. And in a 9/11-like twist, they didn't have any. They offered me Pinot..
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson..
Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assista….
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate t….
[Before I Go To Sleep] script was a great journey with all the twists and turns that were kind of unexpected. I had to finish the script, and I thoug….
the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot..
There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist..
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger..
You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get m….
I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to si….
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen..
People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan.
Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it ain….
Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's bak….
I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan..
No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose.