Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

We are splintering what was the 'camera' and its functionality - lens, sensors, and processing - into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and shutters, software and algorithms are becoming the driving force.

I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

Travel teaches toleration.

I always enjoyed being in front of the camera.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too.

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.