Quotes About Transition

The world hasn't noticed, but R&B has shifted. It's changing course.

For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.

Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.

It's a Hollywood screenwriting notion that change comes because of one epic, soul-crushing event... What's more common is that the slow decay of the nonevents of your life build up until you can't take it anymore.

Notwithstanding my personal affection for Director Comey, I thought it was appropriate to seek a new leader.

One of my favorite things is to first read a novel and then see the movie. I enjoy picturing the characters and then later, seeing them on the screen, comparing how they're different.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

I spend about a year between novels.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

Every now and then you might have to change things around. It's not something that is good to do a lot - especially with your batting - but every now and then, I don't think it's a bad thing.

Every now and then a little bit of change never hurts.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.