If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.