The label doesn’t do anything but put your record in the store, that’s all they do. And tell you, you don’t have a single… and tell you, it’s not gonna sell… that’s what the label does. Ray LaMontagne Read Quote
As a result of the feminist revolution, ‘feminine’ becomes an abusive epithet. Wyndham Lewis Read Quote
It may seem strange, but the most grateful I’ve ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, ‘Thank you for not shooting me.’ I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed. Juliana Hatfield Read Quote
People are savvy enough to know that simply a threat of litigation is tantamount to a nice, hefty check. Mike Gallagher Read Quote
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It’s the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical – in my case, anyway – but also quite detached. Pat Barker Read Quote
I was an only child, so I was very demanding. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I wasn’t very pleasant. Christopher Plummer Read Quote
Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer – who usually needs all the help s/he can get – a musician’s second-hand cool-factor. Lynn Coady Read Quote
I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Bob Geldof Read Quote
