The World Motivation
When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.
“When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.”
— Jonathan Dee · Badly
When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture.
Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years ago.
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
Working families in Ohio have been hurt badly. It started really with the Bush years.
What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.
If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.
I don't like doing things badly, that just feels like a waste of a day.
You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.