M.C. Steve Quotes

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing, and then it's to be considered and fine-tuned and even calculated.

While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.

Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.

These days in particular it seems not only unavoidable but even irresponsible to not acknowledge politics in some way.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

The material dictates the approach.

Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

My own personal experience has become more first-hand.

I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.

In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.

The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

If you're a smart writer, you listen.

Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello, the league spokesman, is more denials. They are now denying their own study.

There's almost a Darwinian quality about the NFL.

The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

How should we provide for our families? Financially, spatially (be near them), emotionally, morally, spiritually. ...I don't have what it takes to provide for my family spiritually; I need Jesus.

Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.

Baseball is not a grind for me.

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

It doesn't matter much what kind of house you've got as long as it's a happy home.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

What you do as president has consequences.

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

It can't help but knock things down.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public.

You can split atoms, but you can't split true love.

No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.

Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.

Beautiful words are ugly motives best friends.

Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught.

Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov!

My dog doesn't like dogs, and I kind of get where she's coming from; I'm not too keen on people.

There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said.