Stewart Stern (Stewart Henry Stern) Quotes

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

Stewart Stern

• Writing
• Money
• Dread

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• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • School
  • Present

• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • Lose
  • Never Forget

• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Start

• But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Year

• I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • People
  • Money
  • Book

• I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Myself

• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Money
  • Mother

• I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Feel

• I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Money
  • Obstacles

• What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Money

• As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• When I write, I try to capture one of those pivotal moments. If I succeed, I have shifted the reader's view of the world, just a little. The character is not the only one to experience change. That is my job, shifting perceptions, one story at a time. The trouble is, I don't like writing. But I love having written.

  

  Ellen Klages
  • Time
  • World
  • Writing

• My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

  

  Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde
  • People
  • Writing

• Even I have been at that point in my life where I thought I didn't have enough extra money laying around to start investing in stocks for my own retirement plans.

  

  John Rampton
  • Life
  • Money
  • Retirement

• I'm a bit skeptical about the possibilities for resistant fiction, and even more despondent over the potential for politically engaged writing to do much of anything outside the dominant means of production and distribution.

  

  Davis Schneiderman
  • Writing
  • Possibility
  • Production

• No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Confidence
  • Engage
  • No State

• Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Violence
  • Conscience
  • Totalitarianism

• Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Government
  • Percent

• Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

  

  Stewart Stern
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Dread