D. W. Wilson Quotes

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

The gaslight of the film [The Girl On The Train] became something that really needed to be dramatized more than the book did, because it wasn't going to read as strongly on screen.

Your power comes from the songs.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

All men of honor are alone.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.

If I had my whole life to live over again, I don't think I'd have the strength.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.

Profiles aren't journalism.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity.

In my day, everything came from my belly button and seat of the pants. Today, everything is done from research.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.