Irs Quotations

If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.

I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.

Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.