P. J. Harvey Hard Quotations

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

What happens with these guys (organizations) is it's very hard to find a successor. When the charismatic founder goes away, who's going to replace him?

We did not have enough effort at the defensive end of the floor in the first half. We did a better job in the second half. We had to do a better job defensively. They were rotating and their kids were running hard through the screens. (Nolan) does a nice job running their sets.

Museums covet his works. They're hard to find. They're expensive when they do find them. And they're often an embarrassing gap in the canon for museums that don't have them.

If it's not in the books, then they become something that's simply hard and harsh and violent and quite unrelenting. That's neither the kind of book that I would like to read, nor that I would like to write. It's people's feelings that interest me.

As long as oil prices are high it is going to be hard for natural gas prices to fall much.

There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you.