I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. Use this quote
As far back as I can remember, these are the first movies, the Universal horror movies where I knew the title of the film and I also knew the names of the actors in those films. Use this quote
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics. Use this quote
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. Use this quote
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. Use this quote
There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it? Use this quote
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. Use this quote
You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff. Use this quote
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. Use this quote
Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast. Use this quote
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. Use this quote
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. Use this quote
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it. Use this quote
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century. Use this quote
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. Use this quote
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. Use this quote
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. Use this quote
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. Use this quote
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. Use this quote
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really. Use this quote
