"The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again."

“Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”

“A lot of times, when doing the paranormal research and doing an investigation, you don't know what you're going to encounter. You don't know what you're going to come up against. People have to realize that we don't know them and they don't know us. I'm talking about the people that live in the homes. Sometimes you don't know what you're going to encounter, what type of situation you're going to walk into.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com

“I wanted to make a small movie about a guy and a girl on the beach, but then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a werewolf was there?”

“If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.”

“The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.”

“My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.”

Source : "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

“If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!”

“The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.2, Cambridge University Press