Jim Rash Quotes
With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
-
'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.
-
All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
-
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
-
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
-
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
-
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
-
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
-
I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
-
The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
-
I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
-
You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
-
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
-
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
-
I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
-
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
-
I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
-
The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.
-
I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
-
My wife noticed that I wrote really good complaint letters about faulty products and that I could get anything I wanted out of these big corporations, and she said that I was a good writer and that I should go to my dad and ask him for help.
-
It's good to be on the power list, but I don't see a practical use of it except when people introduce me to audiences.
-
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
-
If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, Turn my back to darkness, Stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds.
-
With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.
