top of page
"The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next."
Standard
Customized
More

"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."
Author Name
Personal Development

"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate."
Author Name
Personal Development

"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."
Author Name
Personal Development

"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
Author Name
Personal Development

"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."
Author Name
Personal Development

"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
Author Name
Personal Development

"When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing."
Author Name
Personal Development

"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India."
Time

"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
Darkness

"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
Literature

"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."
Career

"The world is always in movement."
World

"I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
People

"That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do."
Writing

"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
Comedy

"As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are."
Family

"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
People
bottom of page