Jason Isbell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
-- Jason Isbell

#Writing #Years #Deadline
There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky.
-- Jason Isbell

#People #Lucky #Wake Up
My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that theres a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.
-- Jason Isbell

#Thinking #People #Favorites Things
When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didnt even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.
-- Jason Isbell

#Drinking #Makeup #Faces
I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.
-- Jason Isbell

#Boredom #Needs #Done
I've grown tired of traveling alone, won't you ride with me?
-- Jason Isbell

#Tired #Traveling Alone
I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
-- Jason Isbell

#Wise #Thinking #Careers
People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.
-- Jason Isbell

#Cancer #People #Abuse

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
I'm a big believer that dreams don't have deadlines!

Jason Isbell famous quotes

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