Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now. Bob Dylan Read Quote
I believe we need more culturally diverse books – about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society. Malorie Blackman Read Quote
I know exactly what it’s like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, ‘Ohhhh my God.’ I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved. Veronica Roth Read Quote
I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there. Marg Helgenberger Read Quote
If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there. Montserrat Caballe Read Quote
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
Songs from the theatre can be taken and put on record in a commercial and contemporary way, be reinvented and become standout tracks on their own. Michael Ball Read Quote
I think the ongoing discussion of the world of advertising is, ‘Where is the soul in advertising?’ John Slattery Read Quote
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon. George MacDonald Read Quote
