Don Mattingly Quotes
I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
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By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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I love writing songs.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
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I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.
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Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
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I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
