Buttar Interview Quotes

#1. You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that.

Loren Bouchard

#2. Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Franz Kafka

#3. Knowledge is a musket. You can use it only as a club, but will you? When your life is on the line?

Brent Weeks

#4. Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Isabelle Adjani

#5. Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day.

Robin Hobb

#6. My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

Barry Lopez

#7. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Thomas Haden Church

#8. When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

Claes Oldenburg