David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music
In the self-interview on Stop Making Sense
David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music
In the self-interview on Stop Making Sense
“I do not like to write - I like to have written.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
“I hate the way he writes. I kind of love the way he lives, though.”
Paul Desmond (1924–1977) American jazz musician
On writer Jack Kerouac
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“I write fantasy. The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened. <br class="br"> A Conversation with Ray Bradbury - Point Loma Nazarene University, Writer's Symposium By The Sea; April, 2001 http://www.cosmolearning.com/videos/a-conversation-with-ray-bradbury-2001-1131/
“I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.”
William H. Gass (1924–2017) Fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
p. 33
Slavoj Žižek (1949) Slovene philosopher
Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004), p. 42
“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist