“The way he filmed bodies and the themes he tackles — with mortality and the human condition, and identity as well — are themes that I have always been interested in and that I treat in my own work I think as a filmmaker ‘Dead Ringers’ would be my favorite one because for me it’s like his opera. It i…”— Julia Ducournau, indiewire.com
“I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblin…”— Stephen King, web.archive.org
“The only reason anybody from a studio comes to see you is if they think you’re going to make them money; they don’t come because they like you.”— John Carpenter, deadline.com
“Writing is what I steal from the usual flow of things, from all the noise and interruptions and the constant rendering unto Caesar that seems to take up more and more of everyone’s time and energy.”— John Burnside, theguardian.com
“These cycles of violence keep happening, and they’re like warning signs that we ignore. That’s why I was fascinated with books on genocide, and how this stuff keeps happening. It’s my biggest fear. It terrifies me, so I’m fascinated by it.”— Trey Edward Shults, theverge.com
“I love people! I’m also terrified of people! So they’re fascinating.”— Trey Edward Shults, theverge.com
“Even as my book was debuting, it was very much like paycheck to paycheck.”— Akwaeke Emezi, thecut.com
“When someone says they need five hours to write they really need one hour to write, but they need those other hours to get down to the depths to be able to write.”— Patton Oswalt, amazon.com
“People can call me a horror writer if they want to, and that's fine — as long as the checks don't bounce, I'm happy with that. But I think that I do a lot more, and I'm interested in the mystery of what we are and what we're capable of doing.”— Stephen King, npr.org
“So what I mean when I say that it’s different being a woman writer, and particularly a mother who is also a writer, is that I don’t think male authors are physically assaulted by their spouses for gaining a modicum of success.”— Anonymous, longreads.com
“Some artists not only have good music but good personalities as well. I don’t wanna brag on myself, but people have told me that my personality matches my music – as in it has quality, as in it’s genuine and it’s real. With me, people don’t have to separate the art from the artist. Knock on wood.”— Juice WRLD, nme.com
“Spanning over 500 years of history, the book features the work and biographies of over 400 women artists.”— Erica Schwiegershausen, The Cut, thecut.com
“All I care about is that I might help take you where you’re looking to go.”— John Mayer, facebook.com
“If any moral responsibility exists at all for the artist, it is to turn everybody on to what he thinks and what he’s doing.”— Mick Jagger, rayconnolly.co.uk
“That makes me happy because I didn’t ever have children, but I feel like I have a lot of daughters.”— Stevie Nicks, rollingstone.com
“I don’t do casual very well. Even my normal life, I’m in cashmere pants and a cashmere sweater and cashmere thoughts.”— Stevie Nicks, rollingstone.com