Lists Quotes - Page 11

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.

You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

The job of the evangelist is never easy.

I am. I think. I will.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.

Sometimes someone will tell me about an author I've never heard of before and that will send me to that person. That's how I discovered Thomas Bernhard, an Austrian novelist whose novels tend to be one long rant.

I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street.