David B. Coe Quotes

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

David B. Coe

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Live
  • Family

• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Long
  • Equality

• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Think
  • Change

• Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • You
  • Stop
  • Blood

• My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Up
  • Book
  • Ideas

• You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Long
  • Want
  • Baseball

• People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • May
  • Career

• There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Rules

• You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

  

  Larry Page
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Think
  • Never
  • Find

• I wish my mother could have seen the America we’re going to build together. An America, where if you do your part, you reap the rewards. Where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind. An America where a father can tell his daughter: yes, you can be anything you want to be. Even President of the United States.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Together
  • Mother

• A lot of times, you see everyone's highlight reels because of social media. You don't know the work that went into getting to that point. This is something that's going to take time, hard work, and you have to be dedicated towards your craft.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Time
  • Work

• Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Time
  • Death

• I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Process

• It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Desire

• It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

  

  John Ciardi
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Courage

• When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses!

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Shoes
  • Pregnancy
  • Dresses

• Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

  

  David B. Coe
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Process