Bill Murray // "I know I'm not saving the world...but something in what I've learned how to do or the stories that I've tried to tell...they're some sort of representation of how life is or how life could be. And that gives some sort of optimism. And an optimistic attitude is a successful attitude."
Isaac Asimov // "Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life, people will take you at your own reckoning."
Stephen King // "When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time" ...It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man."
Marina Abramovic // "The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you."
William James // "Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is."
Jane Jacobs // "If I were running a school, I'd have one standing assignment that would begin in the first grade and go on all through school, every week: that each child should bring in something said by an authority...it could be by a teacher, or something they see in print, but something they don't agree with...and refute it."
Iris Apfel // "You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting."
Roald Dahl // "The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk...there is nobody to scold him. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it."
John le Carré // "The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing."
Ingmar Bergman // "I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work. He is in touch with the child. He is not rational, he is impulsive and extremely emotional. Perhaps it is not even a "he," but a "she."
André Gide // "What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable."
Tilda Swinton // "I suppose if there's one...sort of iconic gesture that I'm always looking for...it's the human face going, "Huh? Don't quite know what to do next." I like that "huh" because it forces one to dig deep."