Ed Martin Quotes
Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.
A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.
My parents and grandparents always made me feel fortunate. I'm in a position to help others feel the same. It's just in my heart and is something I feel very very strong about.
It was a good feeling to have a lot of support. A lot of people respect me as a player but also as a person as well.
It's really up to me to speed up my learning curve as a player so I can contribute in a much bigger way night in and night out.
I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.
Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.
Hopefully, the drivers will be able to race without running over one another. Anything with a heritage like this racetrack, I would not have messed with it. I would have saved my money.
I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today.
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.
Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.
I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.
Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.
America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.
While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.
My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.
My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.
My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.
No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.
Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.
My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.
The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.
They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.