For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together. Hilary Mantel Read Quote
I’m a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don’t have to say it again. Jane Campion Read Quote
In the 1970s, the only places on the Arabian Peninsula where women were working outside the home or school were Kuwait and Bahrain. Jamal Khashoggi Read Quote
The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children’s books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I’d much rather just do something completely different, even if there’s a risk of it going wrong. Mark Haddon Read Quote
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all. William Morris Read Quote
I’m solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That’s what I believe. Ian Brown Read Quote
My family, doctors, and society at large were constantly telling me that I was too heavy, that I needed to exercise more, that I should be smaller. Beanie Feldstein Read Quote
