Will Eisner Quotes
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.Will Eisner
Quotes to Explore
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
Maggie Grace -
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
Laura Donnelly -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
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If you can write it, I can be it.
Karen Black -
Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
P. J. Harvey -
I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James -
I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
Patricia Marx -
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey
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When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
Ted Chiang -
My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'
Katherine Kelly -
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
Maya Angelou -
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou -
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.
Linda Ronstadt
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There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'
Salli Richardson -
The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.
Emma Stone -
As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
George Steinbrenner -
I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
Lou Holtz -
They had every reason to lose tonight and they found a way to win and that's the sign of a good team.
Brad Soderberg -
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
Will Eisner