I think it’s also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started. Simone Giertz Read Quote
Everybody knows that prison is not a good place for anyone, and nobody would feel proud to be there. But I’d like to mention that I was treated really well in there. Mohammad Amir Read Quote
I’m always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That’s, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in ‘The Fighter’ was a surprise. People saw her as a princess. David O. Russell Read Quote
Sometimes as a goalie, it doesn’t matter how good you are, everything has to fall right for you. Martin Brodeur Read Quote
If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous. Howard Gardner Read Quote
Cross-pollination and ‘contamination’ is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it’s a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies. Jeff Vandermeer Read Quote
