John Quotes
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?
I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.
I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.
My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.
When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.
People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos.
The only people who don’t love apps are pundits who don’t understand that apps aren’t really in opposition to the open Internet. They’re just superior clients to open Internet services.
I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery.
You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.
I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.
James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.
Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.
Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.
Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.
I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.
People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.
There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.