Quotes About Perspective

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

Good and evil exists everywhere.

Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things.

Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

Do you still think I'm the good guy?

Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)

When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.