John Briggs Quotations

Writers traditionally see themselves and are perceived as acting in the solitude of their rooms, doing their work. They can only survive if they have an audience and engage in the process with others.

If all options were valued and expensed, business decisions would be based on economics and not on accounting,

Here we have a whole lot of people who care about writing and we have found that students come away excited about doing their work.

It is different seeing it on stage than reading it in the classroom or seeing one of the film versions.

But then somebody suggested we do something with the lights and we decided to aim them in a pyramid shape,

We wanted to create a light display that would be seen as much as possible,

There was a committee in charge of coming up with ideas to celebrate the anniversary and somebody came up with the bright idea of a light display on top of the AQ,

I've been talking to Paul (Pierce, the Springer's artistic director) for six years.

The van Gogh sleuthing is a delightful piece of detective work and certainly entirely reasonable as far as I can tell,