Quotes by Writing The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible. Beverly Cleary keyssuccessfulwriting I write in longhand on yellow legal pads. Beverly Cleary padswritingyellow I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all. Beverly Cleary thirdsenjoywriting George Grant's writing is an invaluable asset to Americans in general, and to the pro-life Americans in particular. I am grateful for his leadership and courage to defend the sanctity of life, and to tell the truth at all costs. Beverly LaHaye pro-lifegratefulwriting When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder. Beyonce Knowles sickwritingthinking When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it. Beyonce Knowles writingsongchildren I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class. Bharati Mukherjee homewritingfather [On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. Bharati Mukherjee exoticagendaswriting Looking back on all the things I went through to get here. It was all worth it. It's a blessing that I can write about it all. Big K.R.I.T. i-canblessingwriting I write my own lyrics completely on my own. Sometimes I have people helping me with concepts or like choruses and stuff sometimes, but mostly I write all my own songs by myself, especially the verses and a lot of the choruses. Big Sean writingsongpeople I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves. Bijou Phillips decisiongonewriting Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves Bill Anderson writingsongsometimes One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that's the way to the future. I'm writing this book right now called Pallin' Around, and the subtitle is: "Talking to the Tea Party." And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it. Bill Ayers partywritingbook I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. Bill Ayers silentlectureswriting One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it. Bill Ayers letting-gowritingworld I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I'm covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book. Bill Ayers tattoowritingbook Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism. Bill Ayers narcissismexcitedwriting Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx wrote about the working class he was writing about something much more bounded than we're talking about. Bill Ayers writingtalkingthinking Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why. Bill Bixby parentwritingchildren I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way. Bill Bruford playerwritingtwo«146147148149150151152153154155156»
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