I really swung between the extremes. From the danger of being ostracised by the society, I almost overnight found myself as virtually the darling of the millions. Dimple Kapadia Read Quote
Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I’d pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that’s when things started getting really heavy. Dimebag Darrell Read Quote
I don’t agree with the sentiment ‘write what you know.’… I think one should write what one doesn’t know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination. Cynthia Ozick Read Quote
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. Hermann Hesse Read Quote
The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who’s looking at themselves in the back of a spoon. Frankie Boyle Read Quote
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. Robert Smithson Read Quote
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. John Maynard Keynes Read Quote
You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn’t something that most writers can’t strive for or identify. It’s something even the best agents and editors can’t always identify. M. J. Rose Read Quote
I’ve seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn’t occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don’t feel like going back and dredging them up. Jhumpa Lahiri Read Quote
Film scores are complicated puzzles that you need to figure out and solve very quickly, or else you’re basically fired. You’re hired to enhance the film and you only have a couple tries to prove that you are capable of that task. I can keep trying to enhance my album ad infinitum. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
