Barrens Chat Quotes & Sayings

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences. — Katherine Boo

Another mistake is presenting too much background information, and doing so in the first few pages. Writers should begin their stories with the event that kicks off the story, and then spoon-feed us background information only when it's needed to understand what's going on."

[A Conversation with Evan Marshall (Writers Write, September 1999)] — Evan Marshall

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice. — Clancy Brown

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story. — David Crosby

Life is a second-by-second miracle. — Joko Beck

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway. — Tom Dreesen

How to please the public - that's the test,
But nowadays I find I'm in a fix;
I know they're not accustomed to the best,
But they've all read so much they know the tricks.
How can we give then something fresh and new
That's serious, but entertaining too? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If we had learned anything concrete by now, we had learned this: we weren't alone. There are other like us out there. People that think they're just strange or different or troubled or depressed or sick, They might just be. But they might also be something more. They could become one of us. — Michelle Hodkin

I'll try to take my time." She pressed closer. "But you're not making it easy. — Marlene Dotterer

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel. — Edna Ferber

He spotted Jill sitting about thirty feet away, face tipped toward the sun, her straight brown hair tucked behind one ear and slanted across her neck. And Ben decided that when her mouth wasn't full of tuna salad, she was sort of pretty. — Andrew Clements

My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that. — Nick Cave