J. F. Powers Quotes
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.
You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.
It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to have meetings with people that you can't otherwise.
I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in.
Whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes your reality.
It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.
Faith requires at times marching into the waters before they part.
People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.
We do not just go through life blindly, we create our own journey.Your faith has sculpted you into the human being you have become.
In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.
What is the point of having all this power if you can’t force people to do what you want?
The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival
There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.
We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.
Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.
If you are not realizing your desires, you are not desiring in faith with all your heart.
Forgiveness doesn't mean what happened wasn't wrong or didn't matter. If it wasn't wrong or didn't hurt, there wouldn't be anything to forgive.
She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.
You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.
Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.
Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.
A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.
Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.
Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,
If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.
Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.