Sansho Tree Quotes & Sayings

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly. — Isabel Allende

I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me. — Mike Patton

To the fool-king belongs the world. — Friedrich Schiller

Your head is pounding with voices of confession and revelation. You followed the rails of white powder across the mirror in pursuit of a point of convergence where everything was cross-referenced according to a master code. For a second, you felt terrific. You were coming to grips. Then the coke ran out; as you hoovered the last line, you saw yourself hideously close-up with a rolled twenty sticking out of your nose. The goal is receding. Whatever it was. You can't get everything straight in one night. — Jay McInerney

I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting. — Sufe Bradshaw

I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way. — Dani Shapiro

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas. — Kary Mullis

As a rule, the Government appoints its friends. — Hector-Louis Langevin