Derek Blasberg Quotes

Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.

I throw the best parties.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.

I'm really close with Dave Coulier and his wife Melissa. My family and I go over there for barbeques, for dinners, Super Bowl parties.

That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.

I've always weaseled my way into Grammy parties to network and everything, but now I have a legitimate reason to be there - it's so cool.

I am a wonderful cook and I like hanging out with people.

I don't really go to a lot of parties. It only seems that way because so many photos are taken when I do go to one.

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was translated until thirty years after I started writing, when The Hidden Face of Eve was translated in 1980.

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

I love to sing, and I love to talk to people at meet-and-greets.