For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You’re not.
I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.
The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.
The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.
Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.
Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.
I’ve wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.
Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.
People who invariably put themselves first will find that others tend to put them last.
Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn’t make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn’t discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That’s what you’ve got a brain for.
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‘sense of utter irresponsibility’ shown by the demonstrators.
I don’t fiddle or edit or change while I’m going through that first draft.
I generally write a first draft that’s pretty lean. Just get the story down.
In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.