I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in... →
Ashwin Sanghi
After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot down every... →
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are... →
Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I... →
When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.
Gus Van Sant
I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.
Santigold
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn... →
Nicolas Sarkozy
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil... →
Marjane Satrapi