J.P. Morgan Quotes

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

Singers always have an advantage. You know, everyone can connect to a song in a way that they cannot do to a basketball act or a magician act or whatever.

All the heat should come my way

There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

Syndicate is technically the first game I worked on.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.