The World Motivation
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.
“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.”
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.
If you're writing a thriller, and you don't make it compelling, then you've really not done your job. So it's easier for me not to set out with certain goals, and then I can't see them as unmet. It's like life generally: If I'm not aiming to be physically fit, then I'm not always thinking about being unfit.
You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.
I don't trust people who are likable.
America never formally surrenders, so we have to call surrender something else. In Vietnam, we called it Vietnamization.
I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.
Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.
In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.
You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.
Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.