My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.
Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now.
I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.
It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.
I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.
And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?
I'm world-famous. . . all over Canada.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.
Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.
If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to one specific reading. By putting the two together, you limit the possibilities. Text and image don't always work together in the way music and song lyrics become part of each other.