"Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that."

-- Andrew VanWyngarden

#Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Bob Quotes

“The first draft of a bookâ€”even a long oneâ€”should take no more than three months, the length of a season.”
“I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.”
“Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken.”
“If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.”
“Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.”

Source : David Macbeth Moir (1860). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir [Delta]”, p.240
“You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.”
“It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time”
“And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?”

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