When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, ….

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's….

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I….

I don't love it. I write better than I used to write, I think better than I used to think, and I've got enough experience to balance things up. But I….

I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtfu….

When we love all the life we see, we see the love in all life..

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which i….

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe..

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was….

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write..

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casuall….

When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write..

As soon as I sat down to write music, really, with Café Blue. I just can't think about that when I sit down to write. I don't let myself. I actually ….

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yours….

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows..

Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they s….

The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's ….

I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows….

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of….

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way..

I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scien….