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

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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
At the end of the day, it's all about money.
Garry Kasparov
- Money
- Day
- End
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
I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

Rachel Sklar
- Up
- Writing
- Money