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

• 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

• 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'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Home
  • House

• 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

• Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

  

  David Geffen
  • Money
  • Happy

• Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this. This is a little outlandish".

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction

• They've had to battle to win without some of their players. With those players back in the lineup they'll be a lot tougher to beat.

  

  Bob Lutz
  • Battle
  • Players
  • Beat

• The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • You
  • Better

• 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