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“A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.”
Source : Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”
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“You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.”
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“Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.”
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“I've always found that the best things I've ever written, or the things I like the most that I've written, are things where it's a pure idea, and you just follow it and put it down and see if it works.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Managing the creative process means selecting the best people and then letting them do their work. That means nurturing. It also means, from time to time, creating drama - even uncertainty - so that the creative environment has an edge to it, a charge, and does not run out of steam.”
Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
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“Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.”
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“Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.”
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“If homosexuality were normal, God would have created Adam and Bruce.”
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“Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.”
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“God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.”