Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

I rewrote the ending to ‚Farewell to Arms,‘ the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It’s a physical experience.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we’re probably not going to see.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

There is spontaneity to my work.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

As I read more and more – and it was not all verse, by any means – my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.

Music is in my DNA!

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

You can be passionate about anything.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.