Vander Ploeg Bakery Quotes & Sayings

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity. — Don DeLillo

We do not overidentify with our jobs. We may take pride in our work, we may stay late and come in on weekends, but we recognize that we are not our job descriptions. The amateur, on the other hand, overidentifies with his avocation, his artistic aspiration. He defines himself by it. He is a musician, a painter, a playwright. Resistance loves this. Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure. The amateur takes it so seriously it paralyzes him. — Steven Pressfield

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons ... — Maureen Johnson

No, he didn't want to tame her any more than he wanted to tame the
land. But by God, it was time for acceptance, on both sides. — Nora Roberts

I obsess too much. — Meredith Brooks

Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told. — Jason E. Hodges

There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters. — Adam McKay

What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered? — Isaac Marion

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that. — J.J. Abrams

I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us. — Robert Edwards