Alan Light Quotes
After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.
Alan Light
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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
Edmund White
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
Gavin DeGraw
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
Patricia Cornwell
The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
Vikram Seth
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.
Eavan Boland
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.
Jane Fonda
I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.
Felicity Jones
No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel like a beautiful woman, no matter what!
Joanna Krupa
I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.
Kristi Yamaguchi
I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.
Jonathan Levine
After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.
Alan Light
