When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward... →
Patti Smith
In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.
Robert Smith
Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most... →
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.
Thorne Smith
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about... →
Zadie Smith
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And... →
Andrew Solomon
Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
Paolo Sorrentino
If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers -... →
Wole Soyinka