"It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series."

-- Jacqueline Carey

#Wisdom Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Writing Quotes

“What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.”

Source : Barry McGuigan (2011). “Cyclone: My Story”, p.192, Random House
“You know, a friend of mine asked me before I got here... it was when we were all shipping out. He asked me, 'Why are you going to fight somebody else's war? What, do y'all think you're heroes?' I didn't know what to say at the time, but if he asked me again, I'd say no. I'd say there's no way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way.”
“It's something that Cory Morrow said to me a long time ago - "Don't ever forget why Nashville is Nashville. The Opry is there for a reason. Country music lives there. Don't be bitter. And don't ever treat Texas or Nashville like either one isn't important."”
“Heaven means to be one with God.”
“We don't think about how the songs are going to translate so much during the writing process. Once the song is recorded, and once we're mixing, that's when it occurs to me. Then you start rehearsing to play shows. I never concern myself about how we're going to pull it off live, because I know we'll figure out a way to do it.”
“No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.”
“I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.”

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