Stephen Graham Jones Quotes

Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.

Stephen Graham Jones

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SadSimpleHappyPeopleWriting

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

Jessica Sanchez

MusicFeelingDownKnowWayListen

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

Joel Grey

ChildhoodBadBirthStartingStuff

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Michael Franti

MusicPowerArtTogetherPeople

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

Tom Cotton

BusinessPassionMenPoliticsPeople

In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he had much wavier hair and a slightly thicker mustache. But when you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you're forcing your beliefs on him.

Lisa Lampanelli

ArtMyselfHairChanceEndYou

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

Joshua Chamberlain

BetterIndividualThanHigherFought

I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my god, I'm never going to work again,' even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along.

Jonah Hill

WorkGodThinkThinkingSometimes

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

Dean Koontz

WorkPageWriteQuickDraftSlowly

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

Bruce Springsteen

LifeTimeWritingRestInteresting

I was so deep in red ink coming out of ECW that I had to make a good solid living just to get my nose above the water line because of ECW.

Shane Douglas

GoodWaterRedDeepLivingLine

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

Septima Poinsette Clark

GoodAngryEatingHurtYouNever

I'm actually one of the sharper tools in the box that haven't been in the streets like that, but I have family members, close loved ones, that that's all they know.

Tyron Woodley

FamilyLovedToolsKnowBoxStreets

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