Richard Thompson Quotes

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

Richard Thompson

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ExperienceYourselfWritingSongYou

Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.

Jim Oberweis

TimeMoneyWayOverEnemiesEven

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.

Jim Sullivan

MoneyYouHumanRealizeOutDecent

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.

Andrew O'Hagan

GoodLiveWritingMoralWillPlaces

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

Mayer Hawthorne

EducationMusicSoulParentsJazz

I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so I could have an excuse to sing with a wedding band as research. That's not a good enough reason to write a book.

Megan McCafferty

GoodResearchWritingBookWedding

As a writer, that moment every few years when I buy a new laptop and find out that all the word processing stuff has slightly changed again (stuff I spend every working day using) is like getting into bed at night and finding some mad robot where you expected your wife to be.

John Niven

MomentDayWifeNightFindingYou

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

Matt Taibbi

MoneyGovernmentTeaAverageAgainst

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Anna Katharine Green

WorkBeautyWorldSpeakDesireOwn

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

Stephen Evans

DieKnowWillHumanSuccessfulHow

Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.

Rob Bell

PeopleWorldPerformanceArtistOver

My partner of 45 years is Australian, and a big part of her character is that marvellous quality of irony which Aussies possess. I relish their humour and sense of fairness.

Miriam Margolyes

CharacterQualityPartnerFairness

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

Diane Warren

LoveMyselfCreatingRoomGoing

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