Susette Ashley Quotes & Sayings

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state. — George Meyer

It's easy to want to be an author. You see it in your mind with sun streaming through windows and a Siamese cat purring on an antique rug and a little pellet stove and somehow the bills are paid and there's wit and self-sufficiency and divine inspiration seeping through walls and pores. And then, in your mind, you skip ahead to a book launch party and more Siamese cats.

When you graduate from wanting to working, you say, "I am going to flesh out this idea and write the whole thing down, and rewrite it, and rewrite it again, and rewrite it unendingly, and I'll have no real assurance of when it'll be good enough, but at some point I'll pitch it to someone who will decide if I'm delusional or not." The optimism and the ego-bruising, unsexy work needed to follow through feels unending. — Kate Inglis

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness? — Nick Hornby

Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask. — Robin Wasserman

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive. — Don Marquis

We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef. — Anne Heche

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once. — Jack Prelutsky

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief. — James MacDonald

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation. — Dennis Hopper

In Beverly Hills ... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. — Woody Allen

He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed
away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons away and reorganized the good bits on his plate. Those pieces were translated into words and catchy phrases and assembled like a new life. — Jeffry R. Halverson