Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don’t try or give up when their efforts don’t lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve. Lauren Tarshis Read Quote
I’ve been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work. Donald McKay Read Quote
Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. Paula Abdul Read Quote
Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free. David Ebershoff Read Quote
I never met Peter O’Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean’s ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget. Michael Korda Read Quote
I’m very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it’s more – I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really – it was kind of my calling card as a kid. Katey Sagal Read Quote
The road to economic well-being is to reward productive economic activity and to provide a moderate and predictable growth of money to finance real economic growth without reigniting the fires of inflation. Paul Craig Roberts Read Quote
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
