I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.
I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge this. They talk about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.
I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes.
I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.