"Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.'"

-- Roy Peter Clark

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Careers Quotes

“I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.”
“I really would have liked to love, but I didnt trust myself to allow it.”
“Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.”
“As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.”

Source : Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.91, Charisma Media
“I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.”
“Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.”
“I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.”
“There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.”

You may also like:

George Kennedy
Actor
Gretchen Rubin
Author
Guy de Maupassant
Writer
James Thurber
Cartoonist
Joseph Heller
Novelist
Katherine Mansfield
Writer
Philippa Gregory
Novelist
Richard Flanagan
Novelist
Terry Hayes
Screenwriter