"What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another."

-- Irving Thalberg

#Writing Quotes

“In the darkest of nights cling to the assurance that God loves you, that He always has advice for you, a path that you can tread and a solution to your problem.”
“We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.”
“When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.241, U of Nebraska Press
“I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.”
“It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.”

Source : "Nanci Griffith finds her voice again". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.
“I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.”
“LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.”
“When I was your age, we didnâ€™t have the Internet in our pants. We didnâ€™t even have the Internet not in our pants. Thatâ€™s how bad it was. I know I sound like my grandfather right now. We didnâ€™t have teeth! There were no questions marks, we just had words! What was I talking about? The Internetâ€¦Not only can you not plan the impact youâ€™re going to have, you often wonâ€™t recognize it when youâ€™re having itâ€¦”

Source : Dick Costolo's Commencement Address at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, www.c-span.org. May 4, 2013.

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