I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
By : Russell Banks
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
By : Evan Hunter
I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.
By : Michael Connelly
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
By : Barbara Walters
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
By : Oscar Robertson
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
By : Lou Reed
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
By : Norman Lear
We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.
By : Robert Teeter
Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it.
By : Helmut Newton
But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.
By : David Gest