Quotes About Perspective

If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

Early in my career I determined that I would not bring the problems of my work home with me. For the most part, I have been able to do that.

I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.

I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Universities are set up to get people to work together by having them disagree with each other.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.

You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

To be perfectly honest, I was never really aware that I had any special abilities. When you have what you have, you don't really think about what you don't have; you simply work with what you have.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

?omen, we think differently than guys. Guys, you know, are very visual. Women, we work a little different.

I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.