The World Motivation
Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.
“Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.”
Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.
If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.
When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you could just do something else - but nothing else makes me as happy.
You need to find someone that you're gonna pair-program with who's compatible with your way of thinking, so that the two of you together are a complementary force.
I recognized a lot of Vogue in me and vice versa. We fit, we were very compatible together - even my mum thinks we're similar!
Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.
The second book was probably the result of the relationship I was in at the time. We were only going to be compatible for a minute, and I think we both knew it. It's like how you can be a different person on vacation, but you know all along you're just visiting that mindset.
It's not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and, at the same time, to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system, we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises.