Peter Cox Quotes

When you are writing something, you can’t anticipate how an audience is going to respond and the fact that people can associate with it is very satisfying.

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Thought

• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Experience

• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

• I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Director

• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rules

• However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Writing
  • May
  • Think

• I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Doing

• I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Book

• I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Red

• I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you're dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Family

• While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Writing
  • American
  • Free

• A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Writing
  • May
  • True

• We don't have the user centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence - presence is the most trivial notion, just am I on this device or not; it doesn't say am I meeting with something, am I focused on writing something.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Writing

• I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Movie
  • Learning
  • Thoughts

• I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25 - but still look fabulous together.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Great
  • Together

• 'Johnny' was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • People
  • World
  • Wolf

• New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Christian

• Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate, and lead people toward an outcome they can't see.

  

  Lynn Good
  • People

• When you are writing something, you can’t anticipate how an audience is going to respond and the fact that people can associate with it is very satisfying.

  

  Peter Cox Go West
  • Writing
  • Audience
  • Satisfying