Quotes Tagged "interview"

I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me 'Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid' - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

Your hair is still wet!

I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?

I read poetry, song lyrics, stories, history, novel and any books I found interesting to read included religious scriptures, political science, life science and biography & life history of scholars, noble persons, litterateurs & scientists.

Sometimes I have used Kindle eBook reading device and it’s best due to specially Amazon Kindle eBook reader is compatible with Word Wise Enabled, Screen Reader Supported (as like VoiceView, VoiceOver, TalkBack, NVDA, ALT text), Enhanced Typesetting Enabled which is faster reading with less eye strain with beautiful page layout visibility, Page Flip Enabled, Text to Speech and others modern or advanced technological facilities inbuilt. But most of times I use my smart phone and computer as well to eReading at online & offline.

Amazon.com is world best book marketing platform as I found, for in the beginning Jeff Bezos was founded the Amazon on book marketing focused channel and now Amazon Publishing Family increased it’s capacity & scope of books publication, distribution, sales and overall marketing around the world included ACX soundtrack production for audiobooks distribute through Audible, Amazon and iTunes.

I published & marketed few books through Lulu Press and it’s good for a complete new self-publishing author/writer to understand the global eBook & Paperback Publishing platforms for their books marketing techniques purpose.

Smashwords is Mark Coker created book publishing platform & channel of retailers, sites, bookstore & libraries also very good existing which is linkedin approx. half to one million such channels which is very useful & effective for book marketing.

Amazon, Kindle, Lulu Press, Smashwords, Rakuten Kobo, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, SCRIBD, Apple iBooks, ClickBank University, Goodreads and there many book marketing, publishing, distribution are leading the book publishing corporations around the world.

Generally I am using mobile phone/device and computer as my focused desk of the writing career the then rest of the elements are different news media, social media, social & global experience, reading different books, professional job experiences to work with different national & international and government & private bodies around the world with whom often I have to work together as consultative or advisory status but I’m feel free to express myself as freelance in all the necessary mode.

I born & rised in the Mahabharat Family (states) country Republic of Bangladesh which is also under British Commonwealth royal throne and in the China Belt-Road regions. So it is very influencing of my writing due the Great Bharat history, culture, society and practice of life & livelihood together .

Buddhism are very inbuilt with the Mahabharat Family States.

We can’t avoid the beliefs of people because many a people live & hope on it.

China Belt-Road region focused on the One Belt and One Road of The Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road in the ancient Chinese silk traders were road the belt for merchant silk & banking finance. Bangladesh is Belt-Road member states. Ancient we learned business & capitalism from China traders on which today’s super power America’s economy was built.