Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character... →
Salman Rushdie
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the... →
We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is... →
Douglas Rushkoff
Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our... →
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will... →
Bertrand Russell
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can... →
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm... →
Richard Russo
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write... →
When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.
Mike Rutherford