I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.
I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.
Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.
Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.