I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and... →
Jimmy Nail
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
Yael Naim
In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you... →
V. S. Naipaul
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep... →
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is... →
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of... →
Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in... →
Mira Nair
I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the... →