Quotes About Time

I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture.

As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn't just what you can see now.

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

The future is always beginning now.

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now.

Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

I think nowadays it's important to have the support of a group of people who are ready to invest time and effort in your music and vision.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

That's what happens in feature docs. The more time you spend, the more nuance emerges, the more a story evolves - but it's different than fiction, where you can reshoot something.

I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisance, a hurdle in front of quality, a forced measure to get something out the door for the good of the schedule, not the customer.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

Time is numbered only to man.

I have nurtured my kids by myself. I am happy that I invested those 10 years in bringing up my kids.

I've inherited my mom's nurturing side, but I've also gotten her 'chronically five minutes late for everything' side, too!

I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.

I'm - like, 80% of the time, I'm the biggest health nut. I'm usually really healthy.