Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.
Girls must be thwarted early in life.
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.
I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a. m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.
I like getting up early. I get up around five.
The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.
I like to go to bed early.
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilisation. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.
A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.
Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.
In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.
Id rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.
There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy, those writers able to combine story-as-narration with story-as-style are even rarer. But there are a few. . . the late Theodore Sturgeon, the early Ray Bradbury. . . and Richard Christian Matheson. A brilliant chip off the old block.
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered the study of "Anglo-Saxon Law. " And that myth of Anglo-Saxonism carries right over into the early twentieth century.
When I first moved up to San Francisco to write Where The Wild Things Are, I had a couple moments where I talked to somebody, and they're like, "Oh, I love that book. I love this part of it," or, "This is what it means to me. " And it's like, "Well, I don't know. I guess that's not what I'm making the movie about. " But very early on, I don't know, we sort of let go of that fear.