"TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader."

“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”

“It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.”

Source : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.152, University of Virginia Press

“If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.”

“...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.”

“Do anything you wanna do—but from [the heart]. Music is a thing from the heart, from the soul, just like anything else you do, man. And you can be the best, you can be what you wanna be. That’s right! You can do what you wanna do. I believe—I’m a blues player. I never been a millionaire, but let me tell you something—I think I am. Cause I got this. I’ve got what it take. And I don’t care if you don’t believe me, man, but I know you do. Because this is what it’s all about. Anything you do, if you wanna do it and you love it, you rich. You a millionaire, man.”

“It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.”

“I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.”

“I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.”

Source : Elizabeth Jane Howard (2012). “Getting It Right”, p.240, Pan Macmillan