“I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."” ThinkingYearsI CanGodRememberBedSittingYears Ago Author:M. Scott Peck
“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.” ThinkingYearsKindI CanEndsSeemsFivePeriodsSixYears AgoConcreteDead Ends Author:James Laughlin
“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?” ThinkingYearsChildrenWantedAmericaMovingGrowsSidesAnimalBoysGrowing UpNiceYears AgoTwentiesEastProfessionJungleColumbusWild AnimalEast Side Author:Abraham Polonsky
“Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.” ThinkingYearsArtDoneEnoughUseArtistWrittenWasteYears AgoMethodPossessionHad EnoughDisgusted Author:Edward Ruscha
“I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.” ThinkingWantWritingYearsNovelSittingYears AgoSitting Around Author:Amy Waldman
“I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.” ThinkingYearsWellsStoriesActorsDevelopmentYears AgoStructureScriptsBonesGood Sense Author:William Mapother