J. Hoberman Quotes

I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.