Gary Reilly Quotes
It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.Gary Reilly
Quotes to Explore
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From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.
Adam Grant -
I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
Kate Christensen -
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
Carlos Fuentes -
We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
Adam D'Angelo -
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
Padgett Powell -
I like writing about biology, not doing it.
Kary Mullis
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
Kat Edmonson -
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
Aaron Lazar -
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. Michael Straczynski -
The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
Yves Behar -
Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
Damon Galgut
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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
Van Morrison -
Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
Kate Morton -
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
V. S. Naipaul -
Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
Leon Uris -
My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
Albert Einstein
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My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.
Gabriel Campisi -
Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'
Martha Stewart -
We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It's a tough grind that you have to go through that people don't understand.
Chauncey Billups -
That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'
David O. Russell -
It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.
Gary Reilly