Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.
Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.
I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.
You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.