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“There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.”
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“'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.”
Source : "Sarah Palin: A Sleight of Gender?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2008.
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“Inside every man there is a poet who died young.”
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“What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.”
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“Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.”
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“I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.”
Source : "'Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.
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“I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.”
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“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”