That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.
A tough woman. That lady has touched more people than I've ever known.
When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day. ' Not some days. Every day.
It comes down to consistency-if you want to be a great shooter, you have to shoot the same way every time.
Everything I know now. . . the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything. . . it taught me and made stronger.
When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed
I'm always ready to step up and take that shot.
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing.
I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.