It's great working with directors and with somebody else's vision.
It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.
The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.
I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
Saying, have a great work-out is like saying, I hope you pull something.
My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.
A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.
I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
