Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.
You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.
I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.
I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.
Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.
Justice will be served And the battle will rage This big dog will fight When you rattle his cage And you'll be sorry that you messed with The U. S. of A. 'Cause we'll put a boot in your *ss It's the American way
There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.
Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy.
No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.
Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.
I really am a believer that 99. 99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.