Quotes About Author

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

It feels weird in our ear holes to hear people worshipping a guy named Ron. We know Rons in our life.

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

Yeah. Kip gets to guard you and I get to house-sit. Life bites the big tee-tawa. (Syn)

The fans always ask me, 'Is Si that crazy in real life?' and I said, 'No, hey, he tones it down for television.'

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must.

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.

Fashion's been really good to me. It financed Patti Smith: Dream of Life.

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

For me to see the film [Dream of Life] on a big screen - it's pretty extraordinary.

I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].

Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he looked at editing. He would take my far-out ideas and tame them and make sense of them.

We had a hodgepodge of footage. We didn't film [in Dream of Life ]all the time - we would just film periodically, so nothing was synced and nothing was slated.

The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.