Spiekerman Do Quotes & Sayings

We can smile when facing a challenge, if we believe in ourselves that we won't back down. — Ellen J. Barrier

Maybe you have to become a mother to get to the real sense of everything. Or a prostitute. — Italo Calvino

The question one asks of the young writer who wants to
know if he's got what it takes is this: "Is writing novels what
you want to do? Really want to do?"
If the young writer answers, "Yes," then all one can say is:
Do it. In fact, he will anyway. — John Gardner

To tell you the Truth: It's better to give rather than to receive. — Amado Nervo

I am not immersed in self-admiration. — Saul Leiter

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work. — Elizabeth Bowen

One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money. — Peter Capaldi

There were many who went in huddled procession,
They knew not wither,
But, at any rate, success or calamity
Would attend all in equality.
There was one who sought a new road,
He went into direful thickets,
And ultimately he died thus, alone;
But they said he had courage. — Stephen Crane

Murder? You mean he's dead?"
"No. He's resting comfortably," I said. "People always sleep best with their heads at a ninety-degree angle. He looks comfortable, doesn't he?"
(Paige & Elena) — Kelley Armstrong

I enter into a book and settle in it, neck and crop, you should realize, in one or two pages of a philosophical essay as if I were entering a landscape, a piece of nature, a state organism, a detail of the earth, if you like, in order to penetrate into it entirely and not just with half my strength or half-heartedly, in order to explore it and then, having explored it with all the thoroughness at my disposal, drawing conclusions as to the whole. — Thomas Bernhard

There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing. — Jon Bon Jovi

If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late. — J. B. Smoove