I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
Mark Haddon
One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always... →
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal... →
I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If... →
I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all... →
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves... →
Charlie Haden
I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when... →
Bill Hader
Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.
I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty.... →
David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.