Quotes About Author

Was he an animal that music so captivated him?

At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.

Now, her bedside table had been pulled into the middle of the room to be used as a desk for these proceedings, and the supervisor sat behind it.

don't make such a fuss about how innocent you feel; it disturbs the otherwise not unfavorable impression you make.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity

he couldn't refrain from contributing his own mite of experience, thereby convincing himself more clearly of its existence as well as his own.

the strange, mysterious, perhaps dangerous, perhaps saving comfort that there is in writing...[is] a leap out of murderer's row.

Committing suicide would be so irrational that even had he wished to, the irrationality of the act would have prevented him.

Sunday, 19 July, slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

In passing: may I say that all too often men are betrayed by the word freedom. And as freedom is counted among the most sublime feelings, so the corresponding disillusionment can be also sublime.

Writing sustains me. But wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it sustains this kind of life? Which does not, of course, mean that my life is any better when I don't write. On the contrary, at such times it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don't write — which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

in my opinion something has been achieved which so closely approximates the truth that it might reassure us both a little and make our living and dying easier

It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.

Obviously, in my past, I had a quite wild relationship with Pamela Anderson.

It wasn't the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing 'Wild Thing.'

Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose sight of the fact that Laura Ingalls Wilder was a real person who was complicated and intense.

Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

The platform Miss Universe has given me has exceeded my wildest expectations.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would become a constant topic for national television and radio shows - never mind mentioned by some of the country's most respected journalists.