Maggie Carey Quotes

I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.

Maggie Carey

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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

Abbie Cornish
- Writing
- Always
- Lyrics
I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Life
- Writing
- Real
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

Quincy Jones
- Time
- Music
- Long
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

Patricia MacLachlan
- Writing
- Book
- Child
I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.

Tavi Gevinson
- Time
- Good
- Fashion
Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

Victor Hugo
- Man
- Action
- Intelligence