Ben Yagoda Quotes

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Way
  • Written

• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Written

• 'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Letter

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Advice
  • Promise

• I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Girl
  • Perfect
  • Write

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Written
  • Reader

• The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Written

• I've always written down how I feel.

  

  Adele
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Written

• I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Alone

• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Work
  • Way
  • Written

• Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Should
  • Written

• What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• I lost myself somewhere. And that’s a very sad thing. Losing yourself is sad and heartbreaking. Fucking sad and fucking heartbreaking. Losing yourself isn’t like losing a key to your house. It isn’t like losing an expensive pair of sunglasses or even the only copy of the greatest screenplay you’ve ever written.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Losing
  • Written
  • Key

• Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

  

  George Saintsbury
  • World
  • Criticism
  • Written

• It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour.

  

  Ana de la Reguera
  • Language
  • Learn
  • Act

• Some friends putting out goodness!

  

  Pat Barrett
  • Friends
  • Goodness
  • Putting

• To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

  

  Ernest Hello
  • Work
  • Difficulty

• I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Written
  • Letter