David Massengill Quotes
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.David Massengill
Quotes to Explore
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
Floyd Patterson -
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
J. Paul Getty -
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
Jack Kent Cooke -
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
Rafael Yglesias -
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Irvine Welsh -
I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
Zoe Kazan -
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 -
I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?
Natalie Dormer -
A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
Mac DeMarco -
Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
Adam McKay -
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.
Garry Marshall
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I always train 100 percent.
Canelo Alvarez -
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I do a lot of writing about my family.
Katey Sagal -
Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.
Olivier Martinez -
...Stevens does not think of inspiration (or whatever you want to call it) as a condition of composition. He too is waiting for the spark from heaven to fall-poets have no choice about this-but he waits writing; and this-other things being equal, when it’s possible, if it’s possible-is the best way for a poet to wait.
Randall Jarrell -
I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.
David Bergen
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When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.
Alicia Keys -
Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
Malcolm Cowley -
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
I thought I could beat anyone in the world.
Chuck Liddell -
There were at least 500-600 proposals after our initial call to artists in early January. We approved a little less than half of them, but not all were made.
Eric Friedman Tremonti -
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.
David Massengill