Nikki Grimes Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised. – Nikki Grimes Exercised Quotes Muscle Quotes Writing Quotes It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could. In ‘Out of the Dark,’ I’m talking about my own life. I’m not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.
Nigel Benn For me, it was the Army or prison. I wanted to make something of myself. The Army gave me that determination, the will to win. – Nigel Benn
Bill McKibben We can’t bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them. – Bill McKibben
John Lennon These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again. – John Lennon
Andrey Arshavin My grandmother used to teach me that it’s bad manners to invite yourself to somebody’s house. – Andrey Arshavin
August Wilson From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don’t write political plays. – August Wilson
Andy Taylor This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don’t sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder. – Andy Taylor
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