#interview

There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again. ↗

— Caris O'Malley

#murder #writing #motivational

I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as what the road crew was supposed to do and when, set Miller straight. "You don't ask Wayne shit like that," he snapped. "It's 7:06 p.m." [p.1] ↗

— Ben Ratliff

#jazz-interviews #musicians-opinions #music

Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have developed mechanisms to deal with these pains, to overcome them somehow. Therapy, religion and spirituality, relationships, material success. All this can work, but also become a problem itself. The pursuit of happiness has even been put into the American constitution a couple centuries ago. Today we're so rich, we own much more than we need, we have liberties unknown before, even though they are endangered in the current political climate in the US - and we forget how wonderful it nevertheless is, compared to most other political and economic systems. We have a saying that goes: Give a man enough rope and he hangs himself. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#pain #relief #retrospectively-eerie-as-hell #religion

I am not religious, more like a thinking, open-minded individual. Religions and their dogmas are not necessarily bad. Human beings interpreting them are. ↗

— Tuomas Holopainen

#nightwish #tuomas-holopainen #religion

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview. ↗

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#heaven #heaven-and-hell #hell #humor #humour

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#belief #god #interview #knowledge #religion

An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read! ↗

— Maggie Reese

#bipolar-disorder #blog #blogger #depression #insomnia

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews. ↗

— Maude Adams

#changed #give #i #interview #interviews

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#changed #confrontational #defensive #everything #interview

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story. ↗

— Gary Allan

#became #because #doing #everybody #i