A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.Quote by Dean Acheson about writers
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.Quote by Kevin Bacon about criticism, good, good luck, bad luck, bad
I read the script, I go away. If I have questions, I'll ask, but then I do my work. If you don't have it in 10 takes, you're not going to have it.Quote by Kenneth Peacock Tynan about work
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.Quote by Kathy Acker about books, people
I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.Quote by Erykah Badu about music
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.Quote by Ansel Adams about god
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from...Quote by Ansel Adams about art, word
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.Quote by Henry B. Adams about influence
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.Quote by John Adams about knowledge
I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.Quote by Oksana Baiul about wish
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.Quote by Fredrik Bajer about literature, peace, good, good luck
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.Quote by Fredrik Bajer about pleasure, affair
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, public
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, world
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, world
And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.Quote by Jim Bakker about pray, god, enemies, word
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing...Quote by Joseph Addison about genius, man
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.Quote by Bruce Barton about hope