“Like everyone else, I was born naked and screaming, waiting for my life to write itself on my skin.”
~ Kat von D, b. 8 March 1982
Bret Easton Ellis (b. 7 March 1964): “All of my books come from pain.”
7 Mar
Bret Easton Ellis, born 7 March 1964, is an American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His novels include Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho. His works have been translated into 27 languages.
Quotes on writing:
- The better you look, the more you see.
- No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
- Life is like a typographical error: we’re constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
- Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
- You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you.
Piet Mondrian (b. March 7th): “The artist is a channel.”
7 Mar
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
~ Piet Mondrian, b. 7 March 1872
Shaquille O’Neal (b. March 6th): “I want to be known as The Big Shakespeare.”
6 Mar
“I want to be known as ‘The Big Shakespeare.’ It was Shakespeare that said, ‘Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.’”
~ Shaquille O’Neal, b. 6 March 1972
Eva Mendes (b. March 5th): “I’m definitely responsible for the image I put out there…”
5 Mar
“I’m definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don’t want ‘sexy’ to be my defining characteristic. I’d love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humor to define me as well.”
~ Eva Mendes, b. 5 March 1974
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Ralph Ellison (b. March 1st): “Writing requires plunging back into the shadow of the past…”
1 Mar
“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.”
~ Ralph Ellison, b. 1 March 1914
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Javier Bardem (b. March 1st): “I don’t see this heart-throb thing.”
1 Mar
“Really, I don’t see this heart-throb thing at all.”
~ Javier Bardem, b. 1 March 1969
Elizabeth George (b. February 26): “I have to know the killer…”
26 Feb
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Elizabeth George, born 26 February 1949, is an American author of mystery novels set in Great Britain. 11 of her novels have been adapted for television by the BBC as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
Quotes on writing:
- It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
- I wish that I’d known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn’t have found it so frightening to write.
- I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can’t be taught. Frankly, I don’t understand this point of view.
- I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.
- Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they’re in. It’s a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.
- Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first… You can’t do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
- Lots of people want to have written; they don’t want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
Chelsea Handler (b. February 25): “I didn’t become a comedian to work this hard.”
25 Feb
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“I didn’t become a comedian to work this hard.”
~ Chelsea Handler, b. 25 February 1975
Johnny Winter (b. February 23): “People need the blues.”
23 Feb
“I think the blues will always be around. People need it.”
~ Johnny Winter, b. 23 February 1944
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