Quotes About Perspective

Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

Truth is an illusory notion.

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.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

It's always fun to talk about a novel.

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.