Richard MacDonald Quotes

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

Richard MacDonald

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SuccessJobYouCreatingWant

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.

Jill McCorkle

QualityStoryFeelYouWantReal

I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed out to me that all of my early novels had houses on the covers.

Anita Shreve

MeEarlyAlwaysOutBeenFact

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

Jeanne Moreau

FeelLearnMatterCleanAlwaysFilm

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'

Stephen Covey

MotherGreatParentsMeSayingYou

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.

Stanley Marcus

BackRidiculousRunPoorHeatForth

When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.

Tony Kushner

WritingStartThinkYouDownTeach

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

Tom Petty

LifeMarriageTeamYouBackKind

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing.

Roger McGuinn

WorkMusicSeaSchoolLovedBack

My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'

Lisa Tuttle

PastPeopleSilverRiskOverwhelmed

Literally everything that could be done with the 'Justice League' has been done with the 'Justice League.'

Christopher Priest

JusticeDoneEverythingBeenCould

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

Corey Feldman

ChildNeverBecauseRaiseHow

I'd rather make music than tour.

Bob Seger

MusicMakeTourRatherThan

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