As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.
Julian Baggini
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the... →
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
Julianna Baggott
A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be... →
Blake Bailey
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography... →
David Bailey
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.