Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed. ”

I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes. ”

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. ”

The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for. ”

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it. ”

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. ”

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. ”

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ”

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ”

All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it. ”