A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays
I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.
Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There is only one psychological assertion that I would insist upon. That is: the SELF takes precedence.
Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.
Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.
The Lord's way is not hard. Life is hard, not the gospel.
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
The poetry is myself.
I think we're all fans of Twilight. Being in this Saga, you become a fan. I have the whole DVD collection at home. I put it on every day and watch it at least five times a day. Is that weird?