Quotes About Connection

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

I cherish my work and all of my readers.

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents

Collaboration. ... For me, it has informed every move I've ever made. And it saved me in many ways and still does. When things get hard, you can cling to the work.

I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

I owe 'Jericho' my whole time in America, really. It was a fantastic group of people to work with.

I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, Id like to work with him again someday.