Every man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.

The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away alone and get to work.

Luckily my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone literally or figuratively.

I may be alone in this but I do sense the power of film in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing and often paradoxically it is literature that suffers for it.