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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid Â£17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

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Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

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I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Margaret Mead

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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Margaret Mead

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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Margaret Mead

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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Margaret Mead

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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

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From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

Ingmar Bergman

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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

Ingmar Bergman

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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

Dan Brown

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Irvine Welsh

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Dan Brown

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

Dan Brown

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

Dan Brown

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Irvine Welsh

If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

Dan Brown

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Irvine Welsh

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Irvine Welsh

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Irvine Welsh

I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

Dan Brown

When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid Â£17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Irvine Welsh

Dan Brown

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Irvine Welsh

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Irvine Welsh

A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Irvine Welsh

I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

Dan Brown

I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

Irvine Welsh

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Margaret Mead

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Margaret Mead

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Margaret Mead

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Margaret Mead

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Margaret Mead

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

Maria Callas

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

Maria Callas

We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

Ingmar Bergman

From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

Ingmar Bergman

When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

Ingmar Bergman

We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

Ingmar Bergman