A.G. Howard Quotes

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

The novel remains a very special form for me.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out.

There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own.

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

Anna [Nicole Smith] was very firm that the Bahamas was her home, it's where she wanted to raise Dannielynn and she wanted Daniel to be near her.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

There are some Trump detractors who feel like it's the media's job to stop Trump.

In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.

I think it's fine for a singer to sing someone else's song. But the thing I don't like is when a singer that can write songs starts getting someone else to do it for them.

I don't think there's any problem with working with a songwriter or a producer, but I just don't think you should completely hand it over to them.

Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

History is where tensions were.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Children, to be illustrious is sad.

(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.

An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

A lot depends on the starting point.

The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.

Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.

There is no shortage of disputes.

The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.

Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.