The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.
I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.
I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you're going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of the canine form.
The idea of printing out something that's as scary as a tumor into its concrete form was something that spoke to me - there is something very liberating about that idea.
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.
Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people's online activities and identities.
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.
Failure too is a form of death.
