Jonathan Evison Quotes

Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.

Jonathan Evison

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ChallengeDanceStepStorySurprise

My work is not great, but it's respectable.

Maurice Sendak

WorkGreatRespectable

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

Sia

GoodFeelSongwritingLikeReally

I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.

Tucker Carlson

LifeFeelMy LifeFirstHimHunter

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

Roisin Murphy

SomeoneSitHerLaurels

I had the lyric 'Chip Don't Go' and a few words, and my wife came in and said that it sounded like a good song. I thought I'd finish writing it up and posting it to YouTube. I didn't realize it was going to take off like it did.

Mat Kearney

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I was the last person to announce I was running for Congress in a big district, and I still won.

Mike Quigley

PersonCongressBigLastStillWon

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Mikhail Bakunin

WomenFreedomMenI AmFreeHuman

The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don't have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.

Michael Moss

SuccessBrainEatingEnoughStop

I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.

Jon Scieszka

WordsBelieveJust BecauseI Believe

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

Bria Skonberg

MusicDayAmericanJazzWayPop

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

Alice Smith

TimeMeTreesRealizeCousinsDirt

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

Richard Pryor

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