A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. – John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 1961 September 10th
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. – Harold Ross
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, whats behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. – Stanley Kubrick
I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I dont think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school. – Nick Clegg
