There was ALWAYS a creative impulse in me but I NEVER felt rooted to ANYTHING.

I NEED to PROTECT myself from my own ADDICTIVE IMPULSE.

I'm not SAYING that women leaders would eliminate VIOLENCE. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we MIGHT TURN out to have an equal IMPULSE toward aggression.

Part of the very impulse of WRITING for me is ACTUALLY wanting to GET away from myself.

Dieting is ODIOUS and can REQUIRE YEARS of DETERMINATION and sacrifice. I entirely UNDERSTAND the impulse to say, 'Screw it,' and have another piece of cake.

The UNITED States was BORN with an imperialist IMPULSE. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is NECESSARY that the Monroe Doctrine be BROKEN.

I have had this longstanding interest in GOING back to SCHOOL to get a Ph.D. in ART history. I was especially interested in EXPLORING this IDEA of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor IMPULSE CONTROL. If you put them in FRONT of a camera, they respond as if it was ACTUALLY happening, in real time, rather than doing it after SEVERAL takes.

Everyone knows that at the AGE of 11-12, CHILDREN have a MARKED IMPULSE to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.

I THINK it's an impulse for HUMAN beings to WANT to suffer less, and we're kind of ADDICTED to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.

There's only one THING harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In ADOLESCENCE, they're just PART of the BEHAVIORAL portfolio.

The urge to convert EXPERIENCE into a GROUP of WORDS that are in a grammatical relation to one ANOTHER is the most basic, ONGOING impulse of my life.

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and WANTED to work more collaboratively. I've also been very LUCKY in my career, with good ADVANCES and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the IMPULSE of the thing itself.

I WROTE stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's MAKE-BELIEVE. It's performance.

The IMPULSE to WRITE things down is a peculiarly COMPULSIVE one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only ACCIDENTALLY, only secondarily, in the WAY that any compulsion tries to justify itself.