All Quotes

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.
‐‐ Linda Sue Park

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
‐‐ Hannah Kent

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
‐‐ Kevin Crossley-Holland

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.
‐‐ Andrew Eldritch

Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.
‐‐ James Salter

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.
‐‐ Louise Erdrich

Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
‐‐ Gayle Forman

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
‐‐ Aminatta Forna

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
‐‐ Sheryl Crow

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
‐‐ Edmund White

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.
‐‐ Ariel Dorfman

Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

Most young comedians would be lying to say that they weren't huge Weird Al fans when they were kids. Weird Al is probably the first person I ever realized had a career that was just making jokes.
‐‐ Trevor Moore

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
‐‐ Peter Guber

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.
‐‐ Stephen Graham Jones

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.
‐‐ Sigmar Polke

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.
‐‐ Lee Atwater

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
‐‐ Jason Patric

Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.
‐‐ Lucy Alibar

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
‐‐ Randy Newman

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.
‐‐ Poppy Z. Brite

Mostly, I have to say as an actor, to find a character that's been rich enough for 10 seasons of shows... that's very rare.
‐‐ Jon Cryer

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
‐‐ Jonathan Ames

Mostly, I just like to write music and spend time with my family and friends and jam.
‐‐ Aubrey Peeples

Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing.
‐‐ Julia Sweeney

Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
‐‐ Zara Larsson

Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of the younger acts, there are The Freight Hoppers, who were big in the '90s, and The Foghorn Stringband from Oregon, and there's a lot of young string bands coming up now, basically punkers who play acoustic instruments forming new bands.
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.
‐‐ Graeme Murphy

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.
‐‐ Chanel Iman

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
‐‐ Anne McCaffrey

Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.
‐‐ Raymond E. Feist

Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
‐‐ Adam Savage

Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'
‐‐ Paul Pierce

Mostly I play with records. I play with my friend Bill Evans.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
‐‐ Blythe Danner

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
‐‐ Tom Waits

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales