The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.
One person's craziness is another person's reality.
Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.
. . . anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.
The secret weapon is cucumber. ' Solange sat all the way up. 'Jasmine, cover your ears. ' MaryAnn, Juliette and Jasmine burst out laughing. 'Sheesh, Solange. Get your mind out of the gutter. ' 'MY mind is just fine, thank you. It's MaryAnn's I'm concerned about. ' 'You put them on your eyes,' MaryAnn said, laughing even harder.
If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?
The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most of the reviewing. It's kind of devastating.