She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.
I never thought I was good enough actually to write.
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sinmistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.
When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something emotional, something that's not just chasing the laugh. "
I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a writer you have some inclination to pay attention. I didn't just tune it out and think about baseball. So, it had an effect on me.
People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories.
A thought is a hard thing to control.
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?
Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified.
When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.
I felt before I thought, as all humans do.
I was a weekend drinker. . . I'd start on Saturday, end on Friday. . . thought I was controlling it. . . but I don't drink any more.
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.
People thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.
Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.
Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.
