I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.
That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.
I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.
Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.